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Salary to Hourly Calculator (and Reverse)

Convert annual salary to an hourly rate and back, accounting for hours per week, weeks worked, and paid time off.

52 minus unpaid weeks
PTO days (already paid)

Converting salary to hourly (and back)

Converting a salary to an hourly rate just means dividing your annual pay by the hours you work in a year. The quick version uses 2,080 hours — 40 hours a week times 52 weeks — so a $52,000 salary is about $25 an hour. For a more accurate figure, base it on the hours you actually work: hours per week times the number of weeks you work. This calculator runs the conversion in both directions, so you can turn a salary into an hourly rate or an hourly rate into an equivalent salary, adjusting hours per week and weeks worked to match your real schedule.

Paid time off is the detail that trips people up, and it is why this tool reports an "effective" hourly rate. PTO is time you are paid for but do not work. Your salary is fixed, so if you take a few weeks of paid leave, you earn that same salary across fewer hours actually worked — which makes each worked hour worth more than salary divided by your scheduled hours. The calculator subtracts your PTO from worked hours to show this higher effective rate, so you can compare a salaried job with generous leave fairly against an hourly role that only pays for hours on the clock.

One thing to keep in mind: every figure here is gross, meaning before taxes, payroll deductions, and benefits. Your take-home pay per hour will be lower once income tax, Social Security and Medicare, retirement contributions, and health premiums come out, and those vary by location and situation. Use this calculator to compare offers, price freelance or contract work against a salary, or sanity-check what a raise is really worth per hour — then apply your own tax and benefit details for a net figure.

Frequently asked questions

How do you convert salary to hourly?
Divide your annual salary by the number of hours you actually work in a year. The simplest version uses 2,080 hours (40 hours per week × 52 weeks), so a $52,000 salary is about $25 per hour. For a more accurate figure, base it on the hours you really work: hours per week × the number of weeks you work, after subtracting paid time off. This calculator does the math in both directions — salary to hourly and hourly to salary — and lets you adjust hours per week, weeks worked, and PTO.
Why does paid time off change my effective hourly rate?
Paid time off is time you are paid for but do not work, so it raises your real pay per hour worked. Your salary is fixed, but if you take, say, three weeks of paid vacation, you earn that same salary across fewer worked hours — which makes each hour actually worked worth more than salary divided by your scheduled hours. The calculator reports this PTO-adjusted "effective" hourly rate so you can compare a salaried job (with generous leave) fairly against an hourly role that only pays for hours worked. All figures here are gross, before taxes and deductions.