Salary to Hourly Converter
Turn an annual salary into an hourly wage — or an hourly wage into a salary — based on the hours you actually work, with weekly, biweekly, and monthly figures alongside.
Your numbers
Use 50 if you take two weeks of unpaid time off — salaried pay usually keeps all 52.
Your result
Gross pay before taxes and deductions. Daily assumes a five-day week at your stated hours.
How salary and hourly pay convert
Everything runs through your total hours per year: hours per week × weeks per year. At the standard 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, that's 2,080 hours — the quick shortcut is to divide a salary by 2,080 (or roughly halve the thousands: $65,000 ≈ $31.25/hour).
Hourly wage = annual salary ÷ (hours per week × weeks per year). Annual salary = hourly wage × hours per week × weeks per year.
The hours assumption is where conversions go wrong. A “$65,000 salary” for a job that really takes 50 hours a week pays $25/hour in effect, not $31.25 — when comparing a salaried offer against hourly work, convert using the hours you'll genuinely put in.
Frequently asked questions
What is $100,000 a year in hourly pay?
At 40 hours a week and 52 weeks a year, $100,000 ÷ 2,080 hours = $48.08/hour. Try it above — and try 50 weeks instead of 52 to see the rate if two weeks are unpaid.
Does paid time off change the conversion?
Salaried employees are paid for vacation days, so 52 weeks is right for them even though they work fewer. Hourly workers paid only for time worked should subtract unpaid weeks — each unpaid week lowers the true annual total, which raises the hourly rate needed to hit the same salary.
How do I compare a salaried offer with hourly contracting?
Convert both to the same basis, then adjust: employees typically receive benefits (health insurance, retirement match, paid leave, employer payroll taxes) worth roughly 20–30% on top of salary. A contractor rate usually needs to be that much higher just to break even.