Salary Calculator
This free salary calculator converts a pay rate between hourly, weekly, biweekly, monthly, and annual, entirely in your browser. Enter a rate, the period it's in, and your hours per week, and see the equivalent amount for every other period instantly. This is a pay-unit conversion tool, not a tax or take-home-pay calculator: it does not account for withholding, benefits, or any other deduction.
How to Use It
- Enter your pay rate and select which period it is in (hourly, weekly, biweekly, monthly, or annual).
- Enter your typical hours per week.
- See the equivalent rate for every other pay period appear instantly.
How It Works
Every conversion routes through an hourly rate as a common base, since every other period is a simple multiple of your hours per week away from it. Whatever period you enter your rate in, hourly, weekly, biweekly, monthly, or annual, the calculator first works out what that comes to per hour, then builds every other period back up from there using your entered hours per week and 52 weeks in a year.
Formulas
weekly = hourly × hours per week
biweekly = weekly × 2
annual = weekly × 52
monthly = annual ÷ 12
A worked example: $20 an hour at 40 hours a week comes to $800 a week (20 times 40), $1,600 every two weeks (800 times 2), roughly $3,466.67 a month (the annual total divided by 12), and $41,600 a year (800 times 52).
This figure is unadjusted: it assumes you work all 52 weeks of the year at the hours you entered, with no unpaid time off, holidays, or overtime factored in, and no tax withholding subtracted. Treat the result as a straightforward unit conversion of a stated rate, not a prediction of what actually lands in a bank account.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this calculate my actual take-home pay?
No. This tool converts a pay rate between hourly, weekly, biweekly, monthly, and annual, nothing more. It does not account for tax withholding, filing status, benefits deductions, or any other real payroll factor, since those depend on your specific situation and jurisdiction. For an estimate of what actually lands in your bank account, use a dedicated paycheck calculator that accounts for those factors.
Why does the annual figure assume 52 weeks?
It treats your entered rate as if it applied to every single week of the year with no gaps, the simplest and most common way this kind of conversion is shown. If you take unpaid time off, unpaid holidays, or otherwise don't work all 52 weeks, your real annual total will be lower than this figure.
Is biweekly the same as semi-monthly?
No, and they're easy to mix up. Biweekly means every 2 weeks, 26 payments a year, which is what this tool calculates. Semi-monthly means twice a month (for example the 1st and the 15th), 24 payments a year. The two schedules land on different amounts per paycheck even for the same annual salary, since 26 payments and 24 payments divide the year differently.
How does changing hours per week affect the result?
It changes every period except hourly. Weekly, biweekly, monthly, and annual all scale directly with hours per week, since they represent the same hourly rate spread across more or fewer hours. Halving hours per week (say, moving from full-time to part-time at the same hourly rate) exactly halves every one of those figures.
Can I enter a monthly or annual salary instead of an hourly rate?
Yes. Change the Pay period dropdown to whichever period you actually know your rate in, monthly and annual both work the same as hourly or weekly. The calculator converts through an hourly rate either way and shows all five periods at once.
Why does the hourly rate matter if I already know my salary?
Hours per week is what ties every period together. Two people with the same annual salary but different weekly hours have different effective hourly rates, and entering the wrong hours per week will throw off every other figure this tool shows, not just the hourly one.
Does this account for overtime pay?
No. It applies your entered rate evenly across all the hours you enter, with no separate overtime multiplier for hours past 40 in a week. If a meaningful part of your pay comes from overtime, treat this tool's figures as a simplified estimate, not an exact accounting of a week with overtime.