Hourly to Salary Calculator
Work out the annual, weekly, and monthly equivalent of an hourly rate — at any working pattern, gross of tax.
Hourly → Salary
$25.00 per hour over 2,080 hours a year (40 h/wk × 52 wk) works out at $52,000.00 a year — gross.
Results update as you type. Figures are gross — before tax and deductions.
Formula
Hourly to annual is a single multiplication:
annual = hourly × hours_per_week × weeks_per_year.
Drop weeks/year below 52 if you take unpaid leave or expect gaps between contracts. Use the
Salary → Hourly tab to flip the calculation:
hourly = annual / (hours_per_week × weeks_per_year).
When this calculator helps
An hourly wage is hard to size up against a salaried offer until you annualize it. This tool does exactly that, which makes it useful any time you are comparing two jobs, deciding between 1099 contract work and a W-2 staff position, or building a household budget around pay that lands as an hourly rate rather than a fixed paycheck.
A large share of US work is paid hourly — retail, hospitality, healthcare, construction, warehousing, gig and contract roles among them. Converting the rate to a yearly figure lets you put a $25-an-hour job next to a $52,000 salaried position on the same footing, so you can judge which offer actually pays more before you commit.
How to read your result
The annual number is gross — your pay before federal and state income tax, FICA and any 401(k) or health premiums come out — so your actual take-home will be lower. It is your hourly rate multiplied by your weekly hours and the weeks you work in the year, which means it is only as good as those two figures.
The standard full-time assumption is 40 hours a week across 52 weeks, or 2,080 hours a year. Keep weeks at 52 if you are a salaried employee whose paid time off is already baked into the headline figure. If your hourly role offers no paid leave, lower the weeks so the annual number reflects the weeks you will not actually be paid.
A worked example
Take $25 an hour on a full-time 40-hour week. Over 52 weeks that is $25 × 40 × 52 = $52,000 gross a year — the same as $25 × 2,080 hours. Now suppose the position has no paid vacation and you take two weeks off unpaid: set weeks to 50 and the figure drops to $50,000. That $2,000 difference is why the paid-leave question matters so much when you weigh an hourly job against a salaried one.
Common mistakes to avoid
Most miscalculations come from treating the headline annual figure as guaranteed, after-tax money.
- Assuming 52 paid weeks when an hourly role has no paid time off — unpaid weeks lower the real annual figure.
- Reading the gross number as take-home; federal and state income tax plus the 7.65% FICA still come off.
- Comparing a 1099 contract rate to a W-2 salary without accounting for self-employment tax and no employer benefits.
- Forgetting overtime, which is paid separately at a premium and should not be folded into your base rate.
US working hours and paid leave
Full-time in the US is generally 40 hours a week, and 2,080 hours a year is the standard figure payroll and HR use for an annual salary. The defining feature, though, is that there is no federal law requiring paid vacation or paid holidays — paid time off is a benefit employers choose to offer, not a statutory right, so two jobs at the same hourly rate can differ sharply in real annual value depending on their PTO.
Pay is floored by the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, but most states and many cities set higher minimums, so the rate you should compare against depends on where you work. Because paid leave is not guaranteed, an hourly offer with no PTO is worth less than a salaried role at the same headline number — add the value of any missing paid days back in before you compare.
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Frequently asked questions
What's the rule-of-thumb conversion?▾
Hourly × 2,080 ≈ annual salary at 40 hours over 52 weeks. So $25/hr ≈ $52,000/year gross. Doubling the hourly and adding three zeros is a fast mental shortcut: $25 → $50,000 (close to $52,000). $30 → $60,000 ($62,400 actual). The calculator does the exact arithmetic at any working pattern.
Does the calculator account for unpaid time off?▾
Only if you tell it to. The default is 52 weeks, which assumes you're paid for every week of the year. If your hourly role doesn't include paid holiday, model it by reducing weeks/year — for example, 48 if you take four weeks of unpaid time off, 50 for two weeks. Salaried W-2 employees should typically leave it at 52 because PTO is built into the headline figure.
Is the annual figure before tax?▾
Yes — gross. To estimate net for the US: subtract federal income tax (10%–37% bracketed), state income tax (0% in 9 states up to ~13% in California), FICA (7.65% — Social Security to the wage base, Medicare uncapped), local taxes in some cities (NYC, Philadelphia), plus health insurance, 401(k), and other pre-tax deductions. Net is typically 65–80% of the gross shown.
How does this compare to a 1099 contractor rate?▾
A 1099 contractor takes home less of the same gross than a W-2 employee: you pay the full 15.3% self-employment tax (employer + employee FICA), buy your own health insurance, and have no employer benefits. Rule of thumb: a $52,000 W-2 salary is roughly equivalent to $62,000–$68,000 of 1099 income depending on your benefits and tax bracket. This calculator gives the headline; adjust upward when quoting contract rates.
Is there a federal minimum hourly rate I should compare against?▾
$7.25/hour federal — unchanged since 2009 — though most states set higher floors (Washington $16.66, California $16.50, New York $16.50 in NYC, etc. as of 2025). The federal Tipped Minimum Wage is $2.13/hour with a tip credit. If your calculated rate falls below your state's minimum, your role may be illegally classified.