Hourly to Salary Calculator
↻ Updated 2026Turn any hourly rate into a yearly salary. Set your hours per week and weeks worked to see equivalent annual, monthly, bi-weekly and weekly pay.
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How to read your annual salary equivalent
The headline is a gross number and an optimistic one: it assumes you're paid for all 52 weeks. That assumption is the whole conversion. $25 an hour is $52,000 a year at 2,080 hours — and $48,000 if four of those weeks are unpaid.
How an hourly wage converts to an annual salary
One multiplication, done twice. Rate times hours gives you a week; week times weeks gives you a year. Everything else on the page is that annual figure divided back down into the period you happen to think in.
The interesting part isn't the arithmetic, it's the 2,080. Forty hours across 52 weeks is 2,080 hours, and that single number is the bridge every salary-to-hourly comparison in the US walks across. It's also a convention rather than a fact: 2026 has 261 weekdays, which is 2,088 hours before a single holiday is subtracted.
weekly = hourly rate × hours per week annual = weekly × weeks worked per year monthly = annual ÷ 12 bi-weekly = annual ÷ 26 full-time year = 40 hrs × 52 wks = 2,080 hours
- hourly rate
- What you're paid for one hour of work, before tax — the slider starts at $7.25, the federal minimum wage — unchanged since 2009, and lower than most states' own minimums
- hours per week
- Your scheduled hours in a normal week — 40 is the full-time convention and the point at which federal overtime rules begin
- weeks worked per year
- Weeks you're actually paid for — 52 assumes no unpaid time off; hourly roles without paid leave are usually well below it
- weekly
- One week's gross pay — rate × hours — the building block for every other figure
- annual
- Gross yearly pay at these hours — before tax, and before any overtime, bonus or benefit value
The bi-weekly line divides by 26 rather than by 52 and halving, which sounds identical and isn't quite: 26 fortnightly periods cover 364 days, one short of the year. The drift is why some years produce a 27th payday. For an hourly worker that's genuinely an extra check, because you're paid for hours worked rather than a fixed annual figure — the opposite of the salaried case.
The monthly figure divides by 12, which no employer actually pays on unless you're on a monthly cycle. It's a budgeting number, not a payroll number. If you want the reverse conversion — a salary broken back down to what an hour of your time earns — the salary to hourly calculator runs the same 2,080 in the other direction.
Worked examples
Example: $25 an hour, 40 hours a week, all 52 weeks
The calculator's defaults, and the standard full-time assumption: no unpaid time off, no overtime.
| Hourly rategross, before tax | $25.00 |
| Weekly pay$25 × 40 | $1,000 |
| Hours per year40 × 52 — the full-time convention | 2,080 |
| Annual salary$1,000 × 52 | $52,000 |
| Monthly$52,000 ÷ 12 | $4,333 |
| Bi-weekly$52,000 ÷ 26 | $2,000 |
$52,000. The shortcut worth memorising: double your hourly rate and add three zeros. $25 an hour is roughly $50,000; $30 is roughly $60,000. It works because 2 × 1,000 is 2,000, and a full-time year is 2,080 hours — so the trick undershoots by about 4%, which is exactly the $2,000 gap between $50,000 and the real $52,000.
Example: the same rate with four unpaid weeks
Same $25 an hour, same 40-hour weeks. Drag weeks worked from 52 to 48 — two weeks of vacation and two weeks of holidays and sick days you aren't paid for.
| Weeks workeddown from 52 | 48 |
| Hours per year40 × 48 | 1,920 |
| Weekly payunchanged — the rate didn't move | $1,000 |
| Annual salary$1,000 × 48 | $48,000 |
| Difference vs 52 weeks7.7% of the year's pay | − $4,000 |
Four unpaid weeks cost $4,000 — nearly 8% of the annual figure — without the hourly rate changing at all. This is the real gap between an hourly job and a salaried one at the same headline rate: the salaried employee gets paid for the holiday, and their $52,000 is $52,000. Comparing a wage to a salary without adjusting weeks is comparing a number that flexes to one that doesn't.
Frequently asked questions
$25 an hour is how much a year?
$52,000 a year at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks — that's 2,080 hours, the standard full-time year. It works out to $1,000 a week, $2,000 bi-weekly and $4,333 a month, all before tax.
That figure assumes every week is paid. If you take four unpaid weeks, the same $25 an hour is $48,000. If you routinely work overtime, it's higher than $52,000 — hours past 40 in a week are typically paid at 1.5× under federal rules, so they're worth $37.50 each rather than $25.
How many work hours are in a year?
2,080 is the convention: 40 hours × 52 weeks. It's what payroll systems, salary surveys and this calculator use, and it's the denominator behind almost every hourly-to-salary figure you'll see published.
It's also slightly fictional. The actual number of weekdays varies between 260 and 262 depending on how the calendar lands — 2026 has 261, which is 2,088 hours. And nobody works all of them: subtract ten public holidays and two weeks of vacation and a full-time employee is at roughly 1,880 hours. The 2,080 is a unit of account, not a description of your year.
Why do I get 26 paychecks a year on bi-weekly pay?
Because 52 weeks divided by two is 26. Every check covers exactly two worked weeks, which is why the annual figure here divides by 26 to give $2,000 on the defaults.
The wrinkle is that 26 fortnights only account for 364 days. That leftover day accumulates, and roughly every 11 years an employer's pay calendar produces 27 paydays instead of 26 — 2026 is one of those years for many employers, depending on when their first payday of the year falls. For an hourly worker a 27th payday is real extra income, because you're paid per hour worked. For a salaried colleague it isn't: the same annual salary just gets sliced 27 ways.
Is the federal minimum wage still $7.25 an hour?
Yes — $7.25 has been the federal floor since July 2009, and it's why this calculator's rate slider starts there (US Department of Labor). At 2,080 hours that's $15,080 a year, gross.
It binds in relatively few places now. Most states set their own minimum above the federal rate, and where a state and federal minimum conflict the higher one applies. Bills to raise the federal figure are introduced regularly — one to take it to $25 was introduced in 2026 — and none has passed. So the number in the slider is a legal floor with a seventeen-year-old price tag on it.
Where an hourly-to-salary conversion breaks down
The multiplication is exact. What it's multiplying is where the assumptions hide.
- Everything here is gross — No federal tax, no FICA, no state tax. A $52,000 salary equivalent nets about $41,900 for a single filer with a 4% state rate and no 401(k) — the conversion tells you what you earn, not what you keep.
- No overtime — Set hours per week above 40 and this calculator pays every hour at the base rate. Federal law generally doesn't: non-exempt employees earn at least time-and-a-half past 40 hours in a workweek. A 50-hour week at $25 is $1,375 under the Fair Labor Standards Act, not the $1,250 this page would show.
- Benefits are worth real money and don't appear — Employer health premiums, a 401(k) match, paid leave and payroll-tax-free perks routinely add 20–30% to a salaried package. An hourly rate that converts to the same annual figure as a salary is not the same offer.
- Weeks worked is doing more work than it looks — The field is the single biggest lever on the page and the one people leave at 52 by default. Paid holidays, unpaid sick days, seasonal gaps and between-contract time all live in it, and each week you remove costs 1.9% of the annual number.
- It assumes the hours are stable — Variable-hour and shift work don't have a 'hours per week'. If your schedule swings between 20 and 45 hours, an average will overstate a bad quarter and understate a good one — the annual figure is only as steady as the roster behind it.
- ·U.S. Dept. of Labor — Fair Labor Standards Act — 40-hour workweek — the basis for a 2,080-hour full-time year
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