Convert an annual salary to an hourly wage or hourly pay to salary, plus daily, weekly, biweekly, semimonthly and monthly pay.
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$30.00 per hour is $62,400.00 a year over 2,080 paid hours: $5,200.00 a month or $30.00 an hour, before tax.
| Period | Pay | Periods per year |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly | $30.00 | 2,080 |
| Daily | $240.00 | 260 |
| Weekly | $1,200.00 | 52 |
| Every two weeks | $2,400.00 | 26 |
| Twice a month | $2,600.00 | 24 |
| Monthly | $5,200.00 | 12 |
| Yearly | $62,400.00 | 1 |
Hourly pay times the number of hours in a year.
Each other period divides the yearly figure by its count; amounts are rounded to 2 decimals only for display.
Every pay figure converts through the yearly amount. Hourly pay × hours per week × paid weeks per year gives the annual salary; monthly pay is the annual figure ÷ 12, twice-a-month pay ÷ 24, and every-two-weeks pay is the annual figure × 2 ÷ paid weeks. Dividing the annual figure by the paid hours gives the hourly rate.
With the defaults, 30 an hour for 40 hours a week and 52 weeks is 2,080 paid hours and 62,400 a year: 5,200 a month, 2,400 every two weeks and 240 a day. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics uses the same 2,080-hour year to turn hourly wages into annual ones.
All figures are before tax and deductions. Overtime and bonuses are not included, and unpaid leave lowers the yearly total, so reduce the paid weeks to match it.
Divide the annual salary by the hours you are paid for in a year: hours per week × paid weeks. A full-time US year is 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours, so 60,000 a year is 60,000 ÷ 2,080 = 28.85 an hour. To turn an hourly rate into a salary, multiply by the same hours.
Other pay periods divide the yearly figure by their count: 12 for monthly, 24 for twice a month and 52 for weekly. Every-two-weeks pay is the yearly figure × 2 ÷ paid weeks, which is 26 paychecks on a 52-week year.
To go the other way, multiply: 17.95 × 1,950 = 35,002.50. The extra 2.50 comes from rounding the rate, so keep the unrounded 17.948718 when converting back.
Salaries converted at 40, 37.5 and 35 hours a week, with 52 paid weeks:
| Annual salary | Hourly at 40 h/week | At 37.5 h/week | At 35 h/week | Monthly | Every two weeks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20,000 | 9.62 | 10.26 | 10.99 | 1,666.67 | 769.23 |
| 25,000 | 12.02 | 12.82 | 13.74 | 2,083.33 | 961.54 |
| 30,000 | 14.42 | 15.38 | 16.48 | 2,500.00 | 1,153.85 |
| 35,000 | 16.83 | 17.95 | 19.23 | 2,916.67 | 1,346.15 |
| 40,000 | 19.23 | 20.51 | 21.98 | 3,333.33 | 1,538.46 |
| 45,000 | 21.63 | 23.08 | 24.73 | 3,750.00 | 1,730.77 |
| 50,000 | 24.04 | 25.64 | 27.47 | 4,166.67 | 1,923.08 |
| 60,000 | 28.85 | 30.77 | 32.97 | 5,000.00 | 2,307.69 |
| 70,000 | 33.65 | 35.90 | 38.46 | 5,833.33 | 2,692.31 |
| 80,000 | 38.46 | 41.03 | 43.96 | 6,666.67 | 3,076.92 |
| 90,000 | 43.27 | 46.15 | 49.45 | 7,500.00 | 3,461.54 |
| 100,000 | 48.08 | 51.28 | 54.95 | 8,333.33 | 3,846.15 |
| 120,000 | 57.69 | 61.54 | 65.93 | 10,000.00 | 4,615.38 |
| 150,000 | 72.12 | 76.92 | 82.42 | 12,500.00 | 5,769.23 |
| 200,000 | 96.15 | 102.56 | 109.89 | 16,666.67 | 7,692.31 |
A quick mental check at 40 hours: halve the salary and drop three zeros. 50,000 becomes 25, against an exact 24.04. The shortcut assumes 2,000 hours, so it overstates the hourly rate by 4%.
Hourly pay converted to a salary at 40 hours and 52 weeks:
| Hourly | Annual | Monthly | Every two weeks | Weekly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 20,800 | 1,733.33 | 800 | 400 |
| 15 | 31,200 | 2,600.00 | 1,200 | 600 |
| 40 | 83,200 | 6,933.33 | 3,200 | 1,600 |
| 50 | 104,000 | 8,666.67 | 4,000 | 2,000 |
| 75 | 156,000 | 13,000.00 | 6,000 | 3,000 |
| 100 | 208,000 | 17,333.33 | 8,000 | 4,000 |
Forty hours times 52 weeks is 2,080, the figure the US Bureau of Labor Statistics uses. A calendar year is 52 weeks and one day, or two in a leap year, so it has 260, 261 or 262 weekdays. 2026 has 261, which is 2,088 hours at eight a day.
The US Office of Personnel Management averaged this over the 28-year cycle after which the calendar repeats. Four years have 262 weekdays, 17 have 261 and 7 have 260, which works out to 2,087.14 hours.
Federal law has fixed 2,087 as the divisor for federal hourly rates since 1986 (OPM).
The choice moves the result by less than 1%: 75,000 is 36.06 an hour on 2,080 hours, 35.94 on 2,087, 35.92 on 2,088 and 35.78 on 2,096, the hours in a 262-weekday year.
Use 2,080 to match BLS wage statistics. For a given year's exact figure, use its weekdays ÷ 5 as the paid weeks: 52.2 for 2026.
Paid holidays and paid vacation do not change the salary, so keep 52 paid weeks when comparing salaries. Unpaid leave reduces what you are paid, so subtract it: three unpaid weeks turn 22 an hour into 43,120 a year instead of 45,760.
Paid leave does raise the rate per hour actually worked. In the UK almost every worker is entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid holiday, 28 days on a five-day week, and an employer can count bank holidays within it (GOV.UK).
With that minimum, the 35,000 employee above works 46.4 weeks, or 1,740 hours: 20.11 per hour worked against 17.95 per paid hour. Use the per-hour-worked figure to compare a salary with freelance or contract work that pays only for hours worked.
In the US, the Fair Labor Standards Act "does not require payment for time not worked, such as vacations, sick leave or federal or other holidays" (US Department of Labor), so paid leave is whatever the employer offers.
One hourly rate cannot capture an overtime premium, so convert the week's pay instead. At 25 an hour, a 45-hour week with the US time-and-a-half premium on the 5 hours over 40 pays 25 × 40 + 37.50 × 5 = 1,187.50.
Converted as weekly pay over 45 hours, that is 61,750 a year and an average of 26.39 an hour. Multiplying 25 an hour by 45 hours a week gives only 58,500, because it misses the premium.
Part-time pay converts the same way with fewer hours. In the UK, leave is pro rata: someone working three days a week is entitled to 3 × 5.6 = 16.8 days of paid holiday.
A contractor is paid only for hours worked and gets no paid leave. To match a 60,000 salary that includes six weeks of paid time off, the contractor has to earn the same 60,000 in 46 weeks.
At 40 hours a week that is 60,000 ÷ (40 × 46) = 32.61 an hour, against 28.85 on the salaried 2,080-hour basis. The contractor also has to cover what an employer would add on top: pension contributions, health cover and the employer's share of payroll taxes.
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Checked against: 30 × 40 × 52 = 62400 by hand; BLS uses the same 2,080-hour year
Checked against: 60000 / 2080 = 28.846…
Checked against: 25 × 40 × 50 = 50000; 50000/12 = 4166.666…
Checked against: 200 × 5 × 52 = 52000; 200 / 8 h = 25
Divide the salary by the paid hours in a year: hours per week × paid weeks. A full-time US year of 40 hours × 52 weeks is 2,080 hours, so 60,000 a year is 60,000 ÷ 2,080 = 28.85 an hour. The US Office of Personnel Management divides federal salaries by 2,087 hours instead, which gives 28.75.
52,000 a year at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks (25 × 2,080). With two unpaid weeks (50 paid weeks) it is 50,000, and at 37.5 hours a week for 52 weeks it is 48,750. The same arithmetic gives 41,600 for 20 an hour and 62,400 for 30 an hour on a 2,080-hour year.
No. Biweekly (every two weeks) means 26 paychecks a year, while semimonthly (twice a month) means 24. On a 62,400 salary a biweekly check is 2,400 and a semimonthly check is 2,600. With biweekly pay, two months a year contain a third paycheck.
The US federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 24 July 2009, which is $15,080 a year on a 2,080-hour year; many states set higher minimums. The Fair Labor Standards Act requires 1.5 times the regular rate for hours over 40 in a week. In the UK, the National Living Wage for workers 21 and over is £12.71 an hour from 1 April 2026, £26,436.80 a year at 40 hours for 52 weeks.
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