Annual Wage Calculator
Type what you are paid in any one period and every other period answers at once: the hour, the day, the week, every two weeks, twice a month, the month and the year, all from the same gross figure. The working year is yours to set rather than ours to assume, so hours a week, days a week, weeks a year and any weeks you are not paid for are boxes on the page instead of a fixed calendar that only holds in one country. Twice a month and every two weeks both appear, 24 pay days a year against 26 in a full 52 week year, because the same salary makes two different pay slips. Every figure is gross pay, there is no box here for anything held back from a pay packet, and the whole calculation runs in your browser.
Leave a box empty to use the default working year: 40 hours over 5 days, 52 weeks, none of them unpaid.
24.50 an hour, at 40 hours a week over 52 weeks, is 50,960.00 a year, 4,246.67 a month and 980.00 a week, across 2,080 paid hours. Every figure is pay before anything is held back.
The same pay, every period
One year of pay written seven ways. Each row is the year divided by its own count of pay days, so every row multiplies back to the same year.
| Period | Gross pay | Pay days a year | Where that count comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per hour | 24.50 | 2,080 | hours a week x paid weeks |
| Per day | 196.00 | 260 | days a week x paid weeks |
| Per week | 980.00 | 52 | one for every paid week |
| Every two weeks | 1,960.00 | 26 | two paid weeks at a time |
| Twice a month | 2,123.33 | 24 | 24 pay days, two a month |
| Per month | 4,246.67 | 12 | 12 pay days, one a month |
| Per year | 50,960.00 | 1 | the whole year |
Worked examples
Common questions
- How do I work out my annual wage from an hourly rate?
- Multiply the hourly figure by the hours you are paid for in a week, then by the weeks you are paid for in a year. At 20.00 an hour over a 40 hour week and 52 weeks that is 2,080 paid hours, so the year comes to 41,600.00, the month to 3,466.67 and the week to 800.00. The hours box is what the answer hangs on: put 37.5 in it and the same 20.00 an hour becomes 39,000.00 a year, because the year now holds 1,950 paid hours.
- What do unpaid weeks change?
- They come off the weeks you are paid for. Enter two and the year runs on 50 paid weeks, so 20.00 an hour is 40,000.00 a year rather than 41,600.00 and the paid hours fall from 2,080 to 2,000. Against a salary it works the other way round: 60,000.00 a year with two unpaid weeks is still 60,000.00, but it is spread across 2,000 paid hours, so the hourly figure rises from 28.85 to 30.00. Nothing is assumed. The page carries no calendar of days off, so any week you do not enter is treated as paid.
- Does this show take-home pay?
- No, and that is deliberate. Every figure on the page is gross: pay before anything is held back. What is kept back depends on where you live, what you have signed up to and figures that are revised every year, so a page that guessed at them would be wrong for most of the people reading it, while the conversion between pay periods is the same arithmetic everywhere. Use the gross figures here, and read a pay slip for what actually lands.
- What is the difference between biweekly and semimonthly pay?
- Biweekly means every two weeks, which is 26 pay days in a 52 week year. Semimonthly means twice a month, which is 24. The gap is real money on every slip: 2,000.00 every two weeks is 52,000.00 a year, while 2,000.00 twice a month is 48,000.00. Both rows sit one under the other in the table, so the one your payroll actually runs is never mistaken for the other.
- How do I get an hourly rate out of a salary?
- Set the Per control to Year, type the salary, and read the hourly row. 60,000.00 a year over a 40 hour week and 52 weeks is 28.85 an hour, because the year holds 2,080 paid hours. A 37.5 hour week holds 1,950, so 68,000.00 a year works out at 34.87 an hour rather than the 32.69 a page that assumed 40 hours would hand you.
- Is anything saved or sent?
- Nothing is sent anywhere: the whole calculation happens in your browser and there is no account to make. The boxes you filled in are kept in this browser's own storage so the page is still set up when you come back, and clearing your browser data clears them.
Exact conversion of the gross figure you enter across every pay period, with the hours, days and weeks you set. It cannot know taxes, deductions, overtime rules or unpaid time you did not enter, so this is pay before deductions and not take-home pay.