What is gross income?

Pay before anything is held back: the figure an offer letter quotes and the top line of a pay slip, rather than the amount that reaches your account. This page converts that figure between pay periods and does nothing else with it, which is why every row on it is labelled gross.

How do I work out my gross annual income from a pay slip?

Set the Per control to the period the slip covers and type the gross figure from it. 1,450.00 every two weeks is 37,700.00 a year over 26 pay days; 2,500.00 twice a month is 60,000.00 a year over 24; 3,800.00 a month is 45,600.00. Picking the right one of those three matters, because the same number in the wrong box is thousands out.

Is gross income the same as take-home pay?

No. Take-home pay is what is left after everything that comes off a pay packet, and that depends on where you live, what you have signed up to and figures that are revised every year. This page stays on the gross figure, which is the part that converts between periods identically for everyone, and leaves what lands in the account to your pay slip.

What if I have more than one job?

Run each job on its own, in the period that job pays in, and add the yearly figures together. The page converts one figure at a time on purpose: two jobs usually have different hours and different weeks, and adding them before converting would apply one schedule to both.

Do unpaid weeks change gross income?

They change it when the figure you entered is hourly, daily, weekly or fortnightly, because you are paid for fewer of those periods: 20.00 an hour with two unpaid weeks is 40,000.00 a year rather than 41,600.00. A yearly or monthly figure is unchanged by them, since you have already stated the year; what moves instead is the hourly figure, because the same money now covers 2,000 paid hours rather than 2,080.

Gross Income Calculator

Gross income is what you are paid before anything is held back, and this page opens on the yearly figure. Enter a salary and read the month, the fortnight, the twice monthly slip, the week, the day and the hour it comes to, or switch the Per control to whatever period your pay slip is written in and read the year instead. The hours, days and weeks behind the answer are boxes you set, so a part time year or a year with unpaid weeks in it comes out right rather than being forced through a full time default.

60,000.00 a year · 40 hours a week · 52 paid weeks60,000.00 a year60,000.00 a year · 5,000.00 a month · 2,500.00 twice a month · 2,307.69 every two weeks · 1,153.85 a week · 28.85 an hour

Pay

Per

Hours a week

Days a week

Weeks a year

Unpaid weeks

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Leave a box empty to use the default working year: 40 hours over 5 days, 52 weeks, none of them unpaid.

60,000.00 a year, at 40 hours a week over 52 weeks, is 5,000.00 a month, 1,153.85 a week and 28.85 an hour, across 2,080 paid hours. Every figure is pay before anything is held back.

A year

60,000.00

A month

5,000.00

A week

1,153.85

An hour

28.85

Paid weeks

Paid hours a year

2,080

Hours a day

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.

Gross pay in each period, with the number of pay days a year behind it
Period	Gross pay	Pay days a year	Where that count comes from
Per hour	28.85	2,080	hours a week x paid weeks
Per day	230.77	260	days a week x paid weeks
Per week	1,153.85	52	one for every paid week
Every two weeks	2,307.69	26	two paid weeks at a time
Twice a month	2,500.00	24	24 pay days, two a month
Per month	5,000.00	12	12 pay days, one a month
Per year	60,000.00	1	the whole year

Worked examples

A monthly figure3,800 a month, 40 hours a week
3,800.00 a month, at 40 hours a week over 52 weeks, is 45,600.00 a year, 876.92 a week and 21.92 an hour, across 2,080 paid hours. Every figure is pay before anything is held back.
A salary to an hourly rate68,000 a year, 37.5 hours a week
68,000.00 a year, at 37.5 hours a week over 52 weeks, is 5,666.67 a month, 1,307.69 a week and 34.87 an hour, across 1,950 paid hours. Every figure is pay before anything is held back.
Two weeks unpaid22.00 an hour, 50 of 52 weeks paid
22.00 an hour, at 40 hours a week over 50 paid weeks (52 weeks with 2 unpaid), is 44,000.00 a year, 3,666.67 a month and 880.00 a week, across 2,000 paid hours. Every figure is pay before anything is held back.

Twice a month is not every two weeks. A payroll that pays on the 15th and the last day runs 24 times a year; one that pays every second Friday runs 26. The same salary therefore makes two different pay slips, and both are in the table above rather than one standing in for the other. Unpaid weeks come off the weeks you are paid for: enter them and the hourly, daily, weekly and fortnightly rows follow the shorter year, while a monthly or yearly figure stays the same money spread across fewer worked hours.

Gross pay, and only gross pay. There is no box on this page for anything held back from a pay packet, and no country, state or city setting, because the conversion is the same arithmetic everywhere and the amounts kept back are not. 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.

Common questions

What is gross income?: Pay before anything is held back: the figure an offer letter quotes and the top line of a pay slip, rather than the amount that reaches your account. This page converts that figure between pay periods and does nothing else with it, which is why every row on it is labelled gross.
How do I work out my gross annual income from a pay slip?: Set the Per control to the period the slip covers and type the gross figure from it. 1,450.00 every two weeks is 37,700.00 a year over 26 pay days; 2,500.00 twice a month is 60,000.00 a year over 24; 3,800.00 a month is 45,600.00. Picking the right one of those three matters, because the same number in the wrong box is thousands out.
Is gross income the same as take-home pay?: No. Take-home pay is what is left after everything that comes off a pay packet, and that depends on where you live, what you have signed up to and figures that are revised every year. This page stays on the gross figure, which is the part that converts between periods identically for everyone, and leaves what lands in the account to your pay slip.
What if I have more than one job?: Run each job on its own, in the period that job pays in, and add the yearly figures together. The page converts one figure at a time on purpose: two jobs usually have different hours and different weeks, and adding them before converting would apply one schedule to both.
Do unpaid weeks change gross income?: They change it when the figure you entered is hourly, daily, weekly or fortnightly, because you are paid for fewer of those periods: 20.00 an hour with two unpaid weeks is 40,000.00 a year rather than 41,600.00. A yearly or monthly figure is unchanged by them, since you have already stated the year; what moves instead is the hourly figure, because the same money now covers 2,000 paid hours rather than 2,080.

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.