Hourly to Salary Calculator
Comparing a wage to a salary — or two wage offers to each other — only works if you annualize both honestly. The multiplication itself is trivial: rate × hours × weeks. What trips people up is what counts as a week. A 52-week year assumes you are paid for every one of them; a seasonal role, unpaid leave, or a "52 weeks, minus two for the holidays you actually take" arrangement changes the annual figure by thousands, and the monthly budget you build on it. This calculator runs the basic conversion and then shows the honest version beside it: what the same rate earns at a full 52 weeks, so the cost of unpaid time is a number instead of a surprise. It is the mirror of our salary-to-hourly tool — use the pair to compare a salaried offer against a contract rate on equal terms.
The short answer
$25 an hour at 40 hours for 52 weeks is $52,000 a year — $4,333 monthly, $2,000 biweekly. Subtract unpaid time off before multiplying: two unpaid weeks drops it to $50,000, which is why two offers at the same hourly rate are rarely the same money.
52 for full-time year-round; subtract unpaid weeks off — two weeks costs two weeks of pay.
Annual salary
$52,000.00
2,080 paid hours at $1,000.00 a week.
- Monthly
- $4,333.33
- Biweekly paycheck
- $2,000.00
- Weekly
- $1,000.00
How to use Hourly to Salary Calculator
- 1
Enter the hourly rate
Use the base wage before overtime, tips or bonuses — those are separate calculations.
- 2
Set realistic hours and weeks
40 hours and 52 weeks is the standard full-time year. Cut the weeks if the job has unpaid time off, or the annual figure will flatter the offer.
- 3
Read the annual figure and the gap
The result shows the annualized pay and, if you cut weeks, exactly what those unpaid weeks cost against the full-year baseline.
Why use this tool
- Annual, monthly, biweekly and weekly figures from one pair of numbers
- Unpaid time off priced exactly — the gap versus a 52-week year is shown
- Pairs with the salary-to-hourly calculator for offer-vs-offer comparisons
- Works for contractors annualizing a billable rate
- Runs in your browser — pay figures never leave your device
Frequently asked questions
- How do I convert hourly pay to an annual salary?
- Multiply the hourly rate by hours per week, then by paid weeks per year. At the standard 40 hours and 52 weeks: $25/hour × 40 × 52 = $52,000 a year, which is $4,333 a month or a $2,000 biweekly paycheck.
- $20 an hour is how much a year?
- At 40 hours and 52 weeks, $20 an hour is $41,600 a year — $3,466 a month. Every $1 of hourly rate is worth $2,080 a year on that schedule, so $21 is $43,680 and $22 is $45,760.
- Should I use 52 weeks or fewer?
- Use the weeks you will actually be paid for. Two unpaid weeks off at $25 an hour costs $2,000 a year; a seasonal six-month role is half the annual figure of the same rate run year-round. The calculator shows the full-year comparison beside your figure so the gap is explicit.
- Does this include overtime or tips?
- No — this is the base-wage conversion. Overtime at 1.5× past 40 hours, tips and bonuses all sit on top. A wage that regularly includes overtime is better evaluated with the overtime calculator before annualizing.
- How do I compare a salary offer to an hourly offer?
- Convert both to an annual figure on the same weeks. A $52,000 salary equals $25 an hour only if the hourly job guarantees 2,080 paid hours — and salaries usually assume PTO the wage lacks. Compare the annual figures, then compare what each pays for time you don't work.
- Is my pay data uploaded anywhere?
- No. The conversion runs in your browser with JavaScript; nothing is transmitted or stored.
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