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Hourly ↔ Salary Converter

Convert a wage to a salary and back — with the part the other calculators skip: your take-home and your true rate per hour actually worked.

What do you know?

Vacation, holidays, and sick days you’re paid for but don’t work. Salaried staff still earn during them; that lifts your true rate.

Take-home (optional)

A flat estimate. Federal brackets, Social Security, and Medicare are applied automatically.

Annual (gross)
Hourly (nominal)
paid hours
True hourly (worked)
Take-home hourly

Every way to slice it

PeriodGrossTake-home
Per year
Per month
Per biweekly check
Per week
Per day
Per hour

About this calculator

This hourly-to-salary calculator converts a wage to a yearly salary and back, but goes further than a simple multiply: it estimates your take-home pay after federal tax, Social Security, Medicare, and state tax, and computes your 'true' hourly rate based on the hours you actually work once paid time off is removed.

How it works

Converting between hourly and salary is hourly times hours per week times 52, or the reverse. The calculator goes further: it estimates take-home after federal tax, Social Security, Medicare, and state tax, and computes your 'true' hourly rate by dividing annual pay by the hours you actually work after paid time off — which is higher than the headline rate for salaried workers.

Frequently asked questions

How do I convert hourly pay to a yearly salary?

Multiply your hourly wage by the hours you work per week and by 52 weeks. At 40 hours a week that's hourly × 2,080. The calculator also breaks the salary down to monthly, biweekly, weekly, and daily.

What is my 'true' hourly rate?

It's your annual pay divided by the hours you actually work, not the hours you're paid for. Because salaried workers keep earning during paid time off, their true rate per worked hour is higher than the headline figure.

What's my take-home on an hourly wage?

Take-home is your gross pay minus federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare, and state tax. The calculator applies 2026 brackets so you can see your real after-tax rate per hour, not just the gross.

How do I convert salary to hourly?

Divide your annual salary by the hours you work in a year — usually 2,080 for a 40-hour week. The calculator also breaks salary down to monthly, biweekly, weekly, and daily figures.

What is my 'true' hourly rate?

It's annual pay divided by the hours you actually work after paid time off. Because salaried employees keep earning during vacation, their true per-worked-hour rate is higher than salary divided by scheduled hours.

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