Salary & Hourly Pay Converter

Why convert between pay periods

Job offers, contracts, and freelance quotes rarely use the same pay period. One role advertises an annual salary, another quotes an hourly rate, a client wants a day rate for a short project. Comparing them properly means converting everything to the same basis first — otherwise a "$30/hour" contract role and a "$55,000/year" staff role look harder to compare than they actually are.

How to use this calculator

Enter any single pay amount and tell it which period that amount is for (hourly, daily, weekly, and so on) — every other period updates automatically. If your working pattern isn't a standard 40-hour, 5-day week, update those two fields first, since every conversion is built from them. Add paid holidays and vacation days if you want a more realistic "adjusted" hourly rate that reflects what you're actually paid per hour worked, rather than per hour in a theoretical 52-week year.

Worked example

A $52,000/year salary on a standard 40-hour, 5-day week works out to $1,000/week, $2,000 bi-weekly, $2,166.67 semi-monthly, $4,333.33/month, $200/day, and $25/hour. Add 10 paid holidays and 15 vacation days, and the adjusted hourly rate rises to about $27.66 — because you're being paid the same annual amount for fewer actual working hours.

Common mistakes

The most common mistake is comparing a quoted hourly rate directly against an annual salary without accounting for hours actually worked, unpaid time off, or self-employment costs a contractor has to cover that an employee doesn't (equipment, insurance, the employer's share of taxes in some countries). A second common mistake is assuming every "year" has exactly 2,080 working hours (40 × 52) — that number only holds if you work every single week with no unpaid time off, which is why the adjusted hourly figure exists here.

Every figure on this page is gross pay — the amount before tax and other deductions. Tax rules, brackets, and what counts as a deduction vary enormously by country and even by state or region, so this tool deliberately stops at gross pay rather than guessing at a tax rate that might be wrong for your situation.