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Salary to Hourly
Convert an annual salary to its hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly equivalents — or work backwards from an hourly rate to an annual salary. Adjustable for hours per week.
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How to use the Salary to Hourly
Select your currency and enter your salary
Choose your currency symbol (£, $, €, A$, or C$), then type your annual gross salary. The calculator supports any amount — just enter the number without formatting.
Adjust hours per week
The default is 40 hours per week (standard full-time). Change this if you work part-time, compressed hours, or a different standard working week.
Enable the holiday calculation (optional)
Toggle 'Include holiday weeks' and enter the number of weeks of paid leave you receive. This reveals your effective hourly rate — what you actually earn per hour worked, excluding your holiday time.
Compare two salaries
Click 'Compare two salaries' to reveal a second salary input. Both breakdowns appear side by side with a difference row showing the absolute and percentage gap between them.
About this Salary to Hourly
Converting between annual salary and hourly rate is useful in many situations: comparing job offers, negotiating a pay rise, switching between employment and freelance work, or understanding what an hourly contract is really worth on an annual basis. The standard formula divides the annual salary by the number of working hours in a year. For a 40-hour week, that's 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours. But this simple calculation ignores holiday time — if you take four weeks of paid holiday, you're only actually working 48 weeks per year, which changes the real hourly cost to your employer (and your effective earnings per hour worked). The effective hourly rate calculation reveals this: if you earn £40,000 per year with 5 weeks of holiday, your nominal hourly rate (40k ÷ 2,080) is £19.23, but your effective hourly rate (40k ÷ 1,880 working hours) is £21.28. The comparison mode makes side-by-side salary comparisons easy — particularly useful when one offer has a higher salary but fewer hours, making a direct comparison non-trivial.
Frequently Asked Questions
Divide your annual salary by the number of hours you work per year. Standard full-time work = 40 hours/week × 52 weeks = 2,080 hours. For example, a $52,000 salary ÷ 2,080 hours = $25/hour.
$20/hour × 2,080 working hours = $41,600 gross annual salary, assuming 40 hours per week and no overtime. Use our calculator to adjust for different hours per week.
Our calculator shows gross pay (before tax). Your actual take-home pay will be lower after income tax, national insurance, and any pension or benefit deductions. The result is a useful comparison baseline.
Your nominal hourly rate is annual salary ÷ total working hours in a year (e.g. 52 weeks × 40 hours). Your effective hourly rate factors out paid holiday — since you're paid for those weeks but not working, your actual earnings per hour worked are higher. Enable 'Include holiday weeks' to see both rates.
Multiply your day rate by the number of working days in a year. A standard full-time year has 260 working days (52 weeks × 5 days). For example, a £400/day contractor rate = £400 × 260 = £104,000 gross per year, before tax and without paid holiday.