How to Convert Salary to Hourly (and Back)

To convert a salary to an hourly wage, divide annual pay by the hours you actually work in a year: hourly = annual ÷ (hours per week × weeks per year). A standard full-time year is 40 hours × 52 weeks = 2,080 hours, so a $60,000 salary is $60,000 ÷ 2,080 = $28.85/hour. To go the other way, multiply: $25/hour × 2,080 = $52,000 a year. The Salary to Hourly calculator does both directions and lets you set the hours and weeks.

The 2,080-hour figure assumes a full 40-hour week with no unpaid time off. Change the inputs and the hourly equivalent moves: a 37.5-hour week (1,950 hours) raises the implied hourly rate, and counting two unpaid weeks off (50 paid weeks) raises it further. Part-time and seasonal workers should enter their real schedule rather than the 2,080 default. For pay split across each cheque, the Biweekly Pay calculator shows gross per pay period for weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly schedules.

This is a gross-pay conversion — before taxes, and before the value of benefits, paid leave, or employer contributions. Two jobs with the same hourly rate can differ a lot once health coverage, retirement matching, and PTO are counted. A salary may also bundle expectations of unpaid overtime that an hourly rate would pay for. Treat the converted number as a starting point for comparison, not a full picture of compensation.

Once you have an hourly figure, you can size up a raise with the Pay Raise calculator, total earnings from several sources with the Annual Income calculator, or measure the gap between two clock times with the Hours calculator. If your role includes overtime, see How to Calculate Overtime Pay for how the regular rate is built from your hourly wage.