Hourly to Salary Calculator

How hourly-to-salary conversion and work-year divisors work

Annual gross pay is your hourly wage times the hours you are paid in a year. Paid hours equal weekly hours times paid weeks (weeks per year minus unpaid weeks off). Going the other way, the tool divides your salary by those same paid hours to find the hourly rate. Because all figures are before tax, use the take-home pay calculator, the federal paycheck withholding calculator, or the W-4 multiple jobs worksheet to check net pay.

Monthly, semimonthly, biweekly, and weekly lines spread annual pay evenly across 12, 24, 26, and 52 checks. Under 29 CFR 778.113(b), "A monthly salary is subject to translation to its equivalent weekly wage by multiplying by 12 (the number of months) and dividing by 52 (the number of weeks)." A semimonthly salary converts to a weekly wage by multiplying by 24 and dividing by 52. Daily pay is what you earn on a day you work (hourly wage times hours per week, divided by days per week). Unpaid weeks lower your yearly and monthly averages, but they do not change your daily pay. To test a raise or bonus, open the pay raise calculator or the bonus tax calculator.

The form defaults to 52 weeks, which is 2,080 paid hours at 40 hours a week. Federal civilian pay tables use 2,087 hours instead. Under 5 U.S.C. 5504(b)(1), "To derive an hourly rate, divide the annual rate by 2,087." Enter 52.175 in weeks per year whenever you want the calculator to use that 2,087-hour divisor.

The federal minimum wage line shows what your hours pay at $7.25 an hour, the floor in 29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)(C) ("$7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day"). For non-exempt staff, 29 U.S.C. 207(a)(1) sets overtime past forty hours "at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed." You can check retirement or self-employment taxes in the 401(k) calculator, the employer 401(k) match calculator, and the self-employment tax calculator.

Hourly, salary, and pay-period conversion formulas

Paid weeks = weeks per year − unpaid weeks off
Paid hours per year = hours per week × paid weeks
Annual pay = hourly wage × paid hours   (hourly wage = annual pay ÷ paid hours)
Monthly = annual ÷ 12,   semimonthly = annual ÷ 24,   biweekly = annual ÷ 26,   weekly = annual ÷ 52
Daily pay = (hourly wage × hours per week) ÷ days per week,   overtime rate = 1.5 × hourly wage

Worked hourly-to-salary and OPM 2,087-hour examples

At $25 an hour, 40 hours a week, and 52 weeks with 2 unpaid weeks off, you are paid for 2,000 hours. That equals $50,000 a year, $4,166.67 a month, $2,083.33 semimonthly, $1,923.08 every two weeks, and $961.54 a week. You earn $200 for each 8-hour day worked, and $37.50 per overtime hour. With no unpaid weeks, the same wage covers 2,080 hours and pays $52,000.

A federal General Schedule GS-1 step 1 salary is $22,584 (2026). Over 2,087 hours, that is $10.82 an hour, the rate OPM's 2026 hourly table prints. At 80 hours a biweekly period, that rate gives $865.60. In OPM's fact-sheet example, a 2011 Washington, DC GS-13 step 1 salary of $89,033 divided by 2,087 hours is $42.66 an hour ("$89,033/2,087 hours"). Multiplying $42.66 by 80 hours gives $3,412.80 biweekly.

A nurse working three 12-hour shifts a week (36 hours across 3 days) at $45 an hour works 1,872 paid hours a year. Annual pay is $84,240, monthly pay is $7,020, biweekly pay is $3,240, and weekly pay is $1,620. Each 12-hour shift pays $540 a day, with an overtime rate of $67.50 an hour.

Assumptions, schedule divisors, and scope limits

• All figures are gross pay before federal, state, and FICA payroll taxes or benefit deductions.
• Every paid hour uses the straight-time rate. Overtime pay, shift differentials, tips, and bonuses are left out of the annual total, though the 1.5× overtime rate is shown.
• Paid vacation and paid holidays count as paid weeks. Only time off without pay should be entered as unpaid weeks off.
• Fifty-two weeks cover 364 days, so a full-time schedule spans 2,080 to 2,096 paid hours depending on weekday alignment; federal civilian pay tables use the OPM leap-year divisor instead.
• The $7.25 federal minimum wage took effect July 24, 2009 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)(C)). If your state or city sets a higher floor, enter that wage in the hourly rate box.

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What to do with your converted hourly or annual pay

Compare job offers on true paid hours, not headline pay. An hourly job with 3 unpaid weeks off pays for 49 weeks (1,960 hours at full time). You need a 6.1% higher hourly rate to match a salary paid across all 52 weeks.

Check your rate against national data. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported preliminary average hourly earnings of $37.81 for private-sector workers in September 2026 (series CES0500000003). At 2,080 hours, that is $78,644.80 a year, versus $15,080 at the $7.25 federal minimum wage.

Keep biweekly (26 checks) separate from semimonthly (24 checks) when planning bills. Two biweekly checks equal 4 weeks of pay, while a month averages 4.333 weeks. Twice a year, a three-paycheck month delivers the extra 2 checks.

Turn gross pay into net cash flow before accepting an offer. Send your annual pay to the take-home pay calculator to subtract 2026 income tax, 6.2% Social Security, 1.45% Medicare, and 401(k) savings.

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