Pick any period, type a number, and watch the other five fill in. That’s the whole idea. Tell it you make $65,000 a year and it’ll show you $31.25 an hour, $1,250 a week, $2,500 every two weeks, and so on. Or flip it: enter $30/hour and find out that’s roughly $62,400 a year at full time.
The card you typed into stays highlighted so you never lose track of which number is the source and which ones are derived. Six periods, one shared assumption about how many hours and weeks you actually work.
Where the numbers come from
Behind the scenes there’s just one move: everything gets converted to a yearly total first, then sliced back into the other periods. So an hourly wage becomes annual by multiplying out your hours-per-week times weeks-per-year. A monthly figure becomes annual by multiplying by 12. Once the calculator has that single yearly anchor, the rest is division.
Two inputs steer all of it. Hours per week defaults to 40, the standard full-time figure in the US. Weeks per year defaults to 52. Change either one and every result recalculates instantly. Working a 30-hour week? Drop it to 30 and the hourly rate climbs while the annual figure stays put.
The daily rate deserves a quick note. It assumes a five-day week for anything above a part-time schedule, so daily pay is your weekly pay split across five days. If you work fewer hours, the calculator scales the day length down to match.
A real comparison
Say a recruiter quotes you “$28 an hour” and you’re weighing it against a salaried role at $58,000.
- $28/hour at 40 hours over 52 weeks works out to $58,240 a year
- That’s $4,853 a month, or $2,240 every two weeks
So they’re nearly identical on gross pay. The hourly gig edges ahead by a couple hundred bucks. Where it gets interesting is everything the raw numbers hide: paid time off, health coverage, overtime eligibility. Hourly contract roles often skip the benefits a salaried job bakes in, so “the same money” rarely means the same deal.
Salaried doesn’t mean 2,080 hours
Here’s a thing people miss. A salaried job nominally pays for 2,080 hours (40 × 52), but you don’t grind all of those. Vacation, holidays, and sick days knock real worked hours down toward 1,800. Since salaried folks get paid for that time off, the conversion still holds for paychecks.
Freelancers play a different game. No paid leave means the year has gaps, so a realistic number is closer to 46 or 48 working weeks. Lower the weeks-per-year box to see how much your effective hourly rate needs to rise to cover the unpaid stretches. Most independent workers set their rate too low because they quietly assume 52 paid weeks they’ll never actually bill.
Common questions
Does this show take-home pay? Nope, these are gross figures. Real net pay lands roughly 25 to 35 percent lower in the US once federal tax, state tax, and payroll deductions come out. The exact cut depends on your state and filing status.
Why is bi-weekly different from twice the weekly? It isn’t, mathematically. Bi-weekly is simply two weeks of pay, so it equals weekly times two. Some employers pay 26 times a year on this schedule, which is the same yearly total spread across slightly uneven calendar months.
Can I use it for a non-US currency? Sure. The currency box takes any symbol, so swap the $ for £, €, ₺, or whatever you need. The math doesn’t care about the symbol, it just relabels the output.
What hours should I put for part-time? Use your actual scheduled hours. A 25-hour week with 50 working weeks gives a very different annual figure than full time, and that’s exactly the gap this tool exists to show.
Is anything sent to a server? No. It all runs in your browser the moment you change a field. Type, read, close the tab, nothing is stored or uploaded.