Salary to Hourly Calculator

Find your true hourly rate from an annual salary, including unpaid overtime.

What the Salary to Hourly Calculator does

Your real hourly rate divides salary by the hours you actually work, not your contracted hours. If you routinely work 50 hours for 40 hours of pay, your effective rate is 20% lower than the headline figure suggests.

Formula

  • Effective hourly = Salary ÷ (Hours per week × Working weeks)

Inputs explained

InputUnitRequiredNotes
Annual salaryselected currencyYesAccepts more than 0.
Hours worked per weeknumberYesAccepts 1 or more, up to 168.
Paid leave weeksnumberOptionalAccepts 0 or more, up to 52.
Currencyone of 10 optionsOptional

How to use it

  1. Choose Currency.
  2. Enter Annual salary and Hours worked per week.
  3. Optionally add Paid leave weeks.
  4. Select Calculate.

Worked example

$75,000 a year working 48 hours a week with 3 weeks of leave.

Salary
75000
Hours
48
Leave
3

$31.89 an hour effectively, versus $38.27 if you worked a 40-hour week.

Frequently asked questions

Why does my effective rate matter?

It is the honest comparison when weighing a salaried job against contract work, or two salaried jobs with different hour expectations.

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