Convert your salary between hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and annual figures based on your work schedule.
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This calculator converts a salary figure between hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and annual amounts by first converting whatever figure you enter into an annual total, then dividing that annual figure back down through each smaller time period. The calculation assumes 52 weeks per year, and uses your entered hours-per-day and days-per-week to determine how many total working hours and days fall within that year. This conversion is useful for comparing job offers quoted in different pay periods, understanding what an hourly rate translates to annually, or figuring out a reasonable hourly rate to charge as a freelancer based on a target annual income. Keep in mind that this calculates gross pay before taxes and deductions, and assumes a consistent full-time schedule without accounting for unpaid time off, which would reduce actual annual earnings. This same conversion logic is also useful when negotiating a job offer, since comparing an hourly contractor rate against a salaried position's effective hourly equivalent puts both options on the same footing for a fair comparison.
A job offer quoting "$25 an hour" and another quoting "$50,000 a year" sound like they're speaking different languages, and in a sense they are — until you convert them to the same time period, comparing them fairly is nearly impossible, and the temptation to just eyeball which number looks bigger leads to genuinely misleading conclusions surprisingly often.
The core conversion works by anchoring everything to an annual figure first, since a year is the one time period that doesn't depend on any assumption about your schedule — there are always 52 weeks in a year regardless of how many hours you work. Every other period (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly) depends on knowing how many hours or days fall within it, which is exactly why this calculator asks for your hours-per-day and days-per-week before doing any conversion.
This schedule dependency is precisely where naive comparisons go wrong. A $25/hour job with a guaranteed 40-hour week converts to a very different annual figure than a $25/hour job with an inconsistent 25-hour week, even though the headline hourly rate is identical — the second job's realistic annual income is only about 62.5% of the first's, a gap that a bare hourly-rate comparison completely hides.
Freelancers and contractors face a related but distinct version of this calculation in reverse: starting from a target annual income and working backward to figure out what hourly rate to charge. This reverse calculation needs to account not just for a target income, but for the reality that freelance work rarely fills every available hour with billable work — administrative time, unpaid pitching, and gaps between projects all eat into the hours actually available to convert into income, meaning the hourly rate calculated from a straightforward annual-to-hourly conversion is often an unrealistic minimum rather than a comfortable target.
It's also worth remembering that every figure this calculator produces is a gross (pre-tax) number. Two annualized salaries that look identical on paper can result in meaningfully different take-home pay depending on tax brackets, benefits, and deductions specific to each position — a genuinely fair comparison between offers needs to look past the gross annual figure into what each offer's specific benefits package and tax situation mean for actual take-home income.
No, this calculates a straightforward annualized figure assuming you work every scheduled hour across 52 weeks; unpaid time off would reduce your actual annual earnings below this calculated figure.
This is gross pay, before taxes, insurance, or other deductions are subtracted; your actual take-home pay will be lower than the figures shown here.
Convert both offers to the same time period (commonly annual) using your actual expected hours and days for each job, since a higher hourly rate with fewer guaranteed hours may result in lower annual pay than a lower rate with more hours.