Salary Converter

about this tool

One figure, every period

Type your pay once — an hourly rate, a day rate, a weekly or monthly salary, a paycheck every two weeks or twice a month, or a yearly salary — and see it for every other period at once. Everything goes through the year: an hourly rate times the hours you are paid for in a year, a monthly salary times twelve, and back out by the same factors, so the figures agree with one another exactly. Each is rounded to the currency's smallest unit (the cent, or the whole yen) only when it is shown.

The amount can be typed as people write it: 65000, 65,000, 65 000, 65'000, 65k, 1.2m, 12 lakh, 1.5 crore, Rs. 50,000, $65,000, lakh-grouped as 12,00,000, or with a decimal comma as in 1.234,56. Anything but plain digits is echoed back as the tool read it, so a slip shows at once. One separator before exactly three digits could mean either thing: 1,500 is read as fifteen hundred, and 2.500 as two and a half, which the tool points out beside the box, since in much of Europe it means two thousand five hundred. A currency named in the amount is picked up when none is chosen; the currency only labels the figures, with its own rounding — rupees grouped in lakhs and crores, yen with no decimals — and nothing is converted between currencies. Letters it does not know, a minus sign or brackets are refused with a reason rather than guessed at.

Your working time

The conversion is only as good as the hours behind it, so they are yours to set: hours a day, days a week and weeks a year. Eight hours, five days and 52 weeks — 2,080 hours — is the usual full-time year. A four-day week, a 7.5-hour day or a half-time 2.5 days a week all work, and a contractor who takes four weeks off without pay can say they are paid for 48. With fewer than 52 weeks paid, weekly and every-two-weeks pay is per paid week, while twice-a-month, monthly and quarterly pay spreads the year evenly over the calendar, unpaid weeks included; the tool notes it.

"Weeks a year" offers the conventions in use. Payroll counts 52. A 365-day year is 52.14 weeks and the average calendar year 52.18. The US federal government divides an annual salary by 2,087 hours to get an hourly rate — 52.175 weeks at 40 hours. At that setting, and 8 hours for 5 days, the hourly figures here were checked against every grade and step of OPM's 2024 base General Schedule (before locality pay), and match to the cent. OPM works out biweekly pay from the rounded hourly rate, so its biweekly figures can differ from these by a few cents.

Biweekly is not twice a month

A paycheck every two weeks and a paycheck twice a month sound alike and are not. Twice a month is always 24 a year. Every two weeks is 26 in most years and 27 in some; the tool takes it as half your weeks a year, so 26 at 52 weeks, and about 26.09 at the calendar average, which spreads the odd 27-paycheck year. At 52 weeks the same $52,000 is $2,000 every two weeks but $2,166.67 twice a month — worth knowing before comparing two offers, or planning a budget around the smaller paycheck.

Paid days off

Holidays and vacation you are paid for do not change the salary, but they do change the hours you work for it. Add them and the tool shows a second hourly figure, pay per hour actually worked: $52,000 over 2,080 paid hours is $25 an hour, but with 25 paid days off only 1,880 hours are worked, so each one earns $27.66. That is the fairer number when comparing a salaried job with an hourly contract that pays nothing for time off.

Limits

All of this is gross pay: income tax, social security, pension and other deductions are not taken off, since they depend on country, state and person. Overtime and shift premiums are not modelled. To see what savings from that pay grow to, the compound interest calculator takes a monthly amount, and for the dinner out afterwards the bill splitter shares the check. Copy gives the figures as plain numbers, with the working time they assume on the first line. Nothing is uploaded or stored.

questions

How do I turn an annual salary into an hourly rate?

Divide it by the hours you are paid for in a year: hours a day × days a week × weeks a year. At 8 hours, 5 days and 52 weeks that is 2,080 hours, so $52,000 a year is $25 an hour. The US federal government uses 2,087 hours (the average year at 40 a week), and at that setting, with 8 hours for 5 days, the tool’s hourly figures match every rate in its published 2024 base General Schedule (before locality pay).

What is the difference between biweekly and semi-monthly pay?

Biweekly is every two weeks: 26 paychecks in a 52-week year, now and then 27. Semi-monthly is twice a month, on fixed dates: always 24. So a semi-monthly paycheck is larger than a biweekly one for the same salary — at 52 weeks, $52,000 is $2,166.67 twice a month but $2,000 every two weeks.

Why is there a separate figure per hour worked?

Paid holidays and vacation do not change what you are paid, but they do mean fewer hours worked for it. Tell the tool how many paid days off you get and it shows the pay for each hour actually worked as well: $52,000 over 2,080 paid hours is $25 an hour, but with 25 paid days off it is 1,880 hours worked, or $27.66 for each one.

Does it take off tax?

No. Every figure is gross pay, before income tax, social security or any other deduction, which differ by country, state and person. It converts pay between periods and nothing more, in your browser.