Hourly to Salary Converter
Turn your hourly wage into annual, monthly, biweekly and weekly gross pay.
How to use
- Enter your hourly rate, regular hours per week, weeks worked per year and any weekly overtime hours.
- Click Calculate.
- See your gross pay for every pay period instantly.
Estimates only — not financial advice. Verify important decisions with a qualified professional.
What Is an Hourly to Salary Converter?
An hourly to salary converter turns an hourly wage into its annual, monthly, biweekly, and weekly equivalents, so you can understand a job's pay in whatever frame your budget uses. Hourly offers are hard to compare with salaried ones by gut feeling — $28 an hour sounds modest until you see it is roughly $58,000 a year at full-time hours, while a $60,000 salary with long unpaid overtime can quietly work out to less per hour than it first appears. This tool does the full breakdown in one click.
This page also handles a detail most quick conversions miss: overtime. If you regularly work hours beyond 40 per week at time-and-a-half, those hours add a meaningful amount to annual pay, and a converter that ignores them understates what the job really pays. Enter your overtime hours separately and the totals include the 1.5× premium, giving you figures you can fairly compare against a salaried offer or use when planning annual spending.
How to Use the Hourly to Salary Converter
- Enter your hourly rate.
- Enter your regular hours per week and the weeks per year you work (52 for year-round work; fewer if your job is seasonal).
- Add any regular overtime hours per week — they are paid at 1.5 times your rate.
- Click Calculate to see your gross pay per year, month, two-week period, and week.
The Math Behind the Conversion
For a standard full-time schedule, annual pay is simply the hourly rate multiplied by hours per week multiplied by 52 weeks — at 40 hours a week that multiplier is the familiar 2,080 hours. Monthly pay is the annual figure divided by 12, and biweekly pay is the annual figure divided by 26 pay periods. Overtime adds its own term to the equation: overtime hours × 1.5 × rate × weeks worked. All results are gross pay before taxes, which is the correct basis for comparing one job with another.
Tips for Evaluating Hourly Work
- Unpaid time off matters: if a role offers no paid vacation, reduce the weeks worked to reflect the time you actually take — your real annual pay falls accordingly.
- Compare total compensation, not just the wage. A slightly lower hourly rate with health insurance and a retirement match often beats a higher bare rate.
- If your hours vary week to season, run the converter with your realistic average hours rather than your best week's schedule.
How do I convert $20 an hour to a yearly salary?
Multiply by your weekly hours and then by 52. At 40 hours a week, $20 × 40 × 52 = $41,600 a year before taxes. This calculator performs the same calculation and also shows monthly and biweekly figures, including any overtime premium.
When must overtime be paid at time-and-a-half?
Under the US Fair Labor Standards Act, most hourly (non-exempt) employees must receive at least 1.5 times their regular rate for hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek. Some states add daily overtime rules. Salaried exempt employees are generally not covered, which is why their effective hourly rate can drop as hours climb.
Why does my paycheck not match the biweekly figure exactly?
The biweekly figure here is gross pay — before income tax withholding, Social Security and Medicare taxes, and any deductions for insurance or retirement contributions. Your net paycheck will be lower, and the exact amount depends on your tax situation and elections.
Part-time hours — how should I use this tool?
Enter your actual hours per week (for example 24) and the weeks you work in a year. The converter scales everything to your schedule, which is the right way to compare a part-time role with a full-time one or to plan a budget around part-time income.