Salary to Hourly Calculator

What this estimate assumes

• It assumes a standard 5-day work week when converting your hourly rate into a daily rate — if you work a compressed schedule (say, four 10-hour days), your real daily rate will be higher than what's shown here.
• This is a gross-pay conversion — it doesn't subtract federal or state taxes, Social Security, Medicare, insurance premiums, or retirement contributions. For your actual take-home pay per hour, see the Paycheck Calculator.
• It doesn't account for unpaid overtime, bonuses, commissions, or irregular schedules that change week to week — it simply spreads your stated annual salary evenly across the hours and weeks you enter.

How to use this calculator

1. Enter your gross annual salary in Annual salary ($) — use the number before taxes, exactly as it appears on an offer letter or pay stub's year-to-date projection.
2. Enter the number of hours you actually work in a typical week in Hours worked per week. Use your real, honest hours here, not just the officially scheduled number, if you want an accurate effective rate.
3. Enter Weeks worked per year — leave this at 52 if you're paid through every week of the year (true for most salaried employees), or lower it if you're accounting for a significant stretch of unpaid leave.
4. Click Convert to hourly.
5. Read the result table for your hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, and monthly rates, all derived from the same annual figure.

Worked example

Take the calculator's own defaults: a $65,000 annual salary, 40 hours worked per week, and 52 weeks worked per year.

Hourly rate: divide the salary by total hours worked in a year. Total hours = 40 hours/week × 52 weeks/year = 2,080 hours. $65,000 ÷ 2,080 = $31.25/hour.

Daily rate: the calculator converts the weekly hours into a 5-day average workday — 40 hours ÷ 5 days = 8 hours/day — then multiplies by the hourly rate. $31.25 × 8 = $250/day.

Weekly rate: divide the annual salary by weeks worked. $65,000 ÷ 52 = $1,250/week.

Biweekly rate: simply double the weekly figure, since a biweekly paycheck covers two weeks. $1,250 × 2 = $2,500/biweekly paycheck.

Monthly rate: divide the annual salary evenly across 12 months. $65,000 ÷ 12 = $5,416.67/month.

So a $65,000 salary, worked as a standard 40-hour, 52-week schedule, breaks down to $31.25 an hour, $250 a day, $1,250 a week, $2,500 every two weeks, and about $5,416.67 a month — before taxes.

Frequently asked questions

Does this account for unpaid time off, like vacation or sick days?

It depends on what you enter for "weeks worked per year." If you enter 52, the calculator assumes you're paid for every week of the year, which is how most salaried employees' pay actually works — your annual salary is typically divided evenly across all 52 weeks whether or not you take time off. If you want to see your effective hourly rate counting only the weeks you're actually at a desk, lower the number of weeks to reflect unpaid time off.

Is this a gross pay or net (take-home) pay conversion?

This is a gross pay conversion — it divides your stated salary by hours and weeks worked, with no taxes, insurance premiums, or retirement contributions subtracted. Your actual take-home hourly rate will be lower once those are deducted. For a take-home estimate, use a dedicated paycheck calculator alongside this one.

How do I use this to compare a salaried job offer to an hourly one?

Convert the salaried offer to an hourly rate using your realistic hours per week, then compare that number directly to the hourly rate you've been quoted. Pay close attention to the hours — a salaried role advertised as 40 hours but that actually runs 50 hours a week has a lower real hourly rate than the math on paper suggests. Re-run the calculator with your honest expected hours, not the official schedule, to get a fair comparison.

Does this calculator account for overtime pay?

No. It simply divides your salary across the hours and weeks you enter — it doesn't add any overtime premium. Most salaried, exempt employees don't receive separate overtime pay no matter how many hours they work, which is exactly why this conversion is useful: it shows your true effective hourly rate once actual hours are factored in, which can look very different from the quoted salary if your hours run long.

Why is my daily rate not just the hourly rate times 8?

The daily rate is calculated from your actual hours per week divided across a 5-day week, not a flat 8-hour assumption. If you enter 40 hours per week, that works out to 8 hours a day and the math lines up with hourly × 8. But if you enter something other than 40 — say a 35-hour or 45-hour week — the daily figure adjusts to match your real average workday length.

Why would weekly pay differ slightly from hourly rate times hours per week?

The weekly rate shown here is your salary divided evenly by the weeks-per-year you entered, while the hourly rate also factors in hours per week. If weeks worked is 52, the two methods match exactly. If you lower the weeks-worked figure to reflect unpaid time off, the hourly rate (which spreads pay only across weeks actually worked) and a simple weekly salary/52 figure will diverge — this calculator's weekly rate always uses your entered weeks-per-year value.