Salary Calculator (Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly & Annual)

One salary, seven price tags

Every conversion on this page routes through a single number: annual gross pay. The calculator first turns whatever you typed into a yearly figure, then divides that figure back out by the number of paid periods in a year. An hourly rate is multiplied by hours per week and paid weeks; a weekly amount by paid weeks; a biweekly check by half as many; a semimonthly check by 24; a monthly amount by 12. Reversing those same divisions produces the rest of the grid, which is why changing any one input moves all seven cards at once. The hourly to salary calculator is the two-way version with a schedule table; this page is the full grid, for the moment an offer is quoted one way and your budget runs another.

The 2,080-hour year, and the input most people skip

Payroll convention treats a full-time year as 52 weeks of 40 hours, or 2,080 hours, and the defaults assume exactly that. For a salaried job the convention is fine: the salary is the salary, and paid time off is already inside it. For hourly work it flatters the total. Two unpaid weeks a year cut the count to 2,000 hours, so $31.25 an hour becomes $62,500 rather than $65,000. The weeks slider exists for this. Lower it to the weeks you are actually paid and the hourly, daily, weekly, and biweekly cards move with it, while the monthly and annual figures stay honest calendar averages.

$65,000 a year, cut every way

Take the default. Annual gross pay of $65,000 is $5,417 a month, $2,708 per semimonthly check, and $2,500 per biweekly check, a gap people feel when rent is due and the 24-check and 26-check calendars drift apart. Weekly it is $1,250, daily $250 across a five-day week, and hourly $31.25 at 2,080 hours. Flip the entry around and the arithmetic runs backward: someone quoted $31.25 an hour can see at once that the job pays $65,000 at full time, $56,875 at 35 hours a week, or $73,125 at 45, which is the comparison the hours table under the results is built for.

Salaried and hourly read the grid differently

A salaried employee uses the grid to translate a yearly number into the paycheck rhythm their bills follow, and to notice that two three-paycheck months arrive every year on a biweekly schedule. An hourly worker reads it the other way, testing what a schedule change does to the year, and remembering that hours past 40 in a week typically earn overtime, which no flat rate grid includes. Both should keep in mind that all of this is gross income. Federal and state withholding, Social Security, and Medicare come out before the deposit, so the paycheck calculator is the natural next step, and the net to gross calculator runs the same trip backward, from a take-home target to the salary that delivers it.