Salary Calculator
Convert hourly, weekly, biweekly, monthly, and annual pay.
Use this Salary Calculator to convert gross pay between hourly, weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, monthly, and annual amounts. Hourly conversions can be adjusted using your usual hours per week and number of paid weeks per year.
Important: The calculator estimates gross pay before taxes, deductions, overtime, bonuses, commissions, and employee benefits.
Salary Conversion Method
The calculator first converts the entered amount to estimated annual gross pay, then converts that annual amount into other pay periods.
For hourly pay:
Annual pay = hourly rate × hours per week × paid weeks per year
Hourly rate = annual pay ÷ (hours per week × paid weeks per year)
For weekly pay:
Weekly pay = annual pay ÷ paid weeks per year
For common payroll periods:
Biweekly pay = annual pay ÷ 26
Semi-monthly pay = annual pay ÷ 24
Monthly pay = annual pay ÷ 12
Worked Example
Suppose your annual gross salary is $60,000, you normally work 40 hours per week, and you are paid for 52 weeks per year.
Estimated hourly rate:
$60,000 ÷ (40 × 52) ≈ $28.85 per hour
Estimated weekly pay:
$60,000 ÷ 52 ≈ $1,153.85
Estimated biweekly pay:
$60,000 ÷ 26 ≈ $2,307.69
Estimated semi-monthly pay:
$60,000 ÷ 24 = $2,500
Estimated monthly pay:
$60,000 ÷ 12 = $5,000
These amounts represent equivalent gross pay under the assumptions entered.
Important Notes
- Gross pay is the amount before income taxes, payroll taxes, insurance premiums, retirement contributions, and other deductions.
- Biweekly means every two weeks, commonly producing 26 pay periods in a 52-week year. Semi-monthly means twice per month, producing 24 pay periods per year.
- The paid-weeks input is useful when estimating hourly or weekly earnings for seasonal work or unpaid periods.
- The calculator does not add overtime pay. For covered nonexempt U.S. employees, federal overtime rules generally require premium pay for qualifying hours over 40 in a workweek.
- Bonuses, commissions, tips, shift differentials, irregular schedules, paid leave, and other compensation are not automatically included.
- An hourly equivalent calculated from an annual salary is a comparison estimate; it does not determine whether an employee is legally hourly, salaried, exempt, or nonexempt.
- Actual take-home pay requires separate tax and payroll-deduction calculations.