Hourly to Salary Calculator

About this calculator

Convert hourly wages and salary using your schedule, time off and overtime. Optionally estimate take-home pay with supported U.S. and UK tax models.

Compare gross pay under a schedule you enter. Hourly → Salary starts at 25 currency units per hour, 40 regular hours per week and 52 scheduled weeks. Salary → Hourly starts at 52,000 annually with the same schedule. Valid edits update instantly; switching modes retains each mode’s pay entry. Expand the optional take-home section inside the result to apply a supported country model to the accepted annual gross amount. Gross conversion remains the primary result.

How hourly to salary conversion works — formula

Regular annual paid hours = regular hours per week × paid weeks. In hourly mode, regular annual pay = hourly wage × regular paid hours. Add separately modeled overtime to obtain total annual gross pay. In salary mode, equivalent hourly rate = entered annual salary ÷ (regular hours per week × paid-basis weeks). The entered annual salary is never reduced by hidden time-off inputs.

All results and comparisons use one central engine. Currency changes labels and formatting only. Native floating-point calculations retain precision internally; money rounds to two decimal places for display. A displayed hourly equivalent can be zero for a small positive annual salary; rounded values are not used for subsequent calculations.

Pay-period equivalents

The annualized equivalents all use the same total annual gross pay: monthly = annual ÷ 12; biweekly = annual ÷ 26; weekly = annual ÷ 52; daily = annual ÷ 260. Daily represents five days per week for 52 weeks. It does not assume you actually work five days, or promise a daily paycheck.

The hourly figure is the entered regular base rate in hourly mode, or the salary divided by regular paid hours in reverse mode. It is shown separately from the annualized table. With overtime or time off, the annualized weekly figure can differ from regular wage × hours per worked week. These are comparison equivalents, not actual payroll checks or a calendar of pay dates; biweekly is distinct from twice-monthly pay.

Take-home pay estimates

Open “Estimate net pay after taxes” to select a country and see an annual tax estimate below the gross result. The country model receives annual gross pay, including modeled paid leave and overtime. Salary → Hourly uses the entered annual salary. Tax options never change the hourly rate, schedule, gross totals or raise comparisons.

United States requires USD; the UK model requires GBP. If currency does not match, no tax result is calculated. Change the main Currency control only when the entered amounts are denominated in that currency, and enter a different wage amount if necessary. There is no FX conversion or automatic reinterpretation on a country change.

Country tax calculations use annual gross rounded to cents or pence, while gross calculations retain their precision. Net monthly = annual net ÷ 12; biweekly = annual net ÷ 26; weekly = annual net ÷ 52. These are planning equivalents, not actual payroll checks. Tax estimates support annual gross up to 10,000,000 in the required currency; a higher gross result stays available without a tax result.

United States model

United States: 2026 U.S. federal rules. Single or Head of Household only; basic standard deduction, under 65, not blind and not claimable as another taxpayer’s dependent. Ordinary U.S. employee wages fully subject to FICA; gross wages equal federal wage income and Medicare wages, with Social Security wages capped separately. No other income.

Taxable income = max(0, wages − basic standard deduction), using $16,100 for Single or $24,150 for Head of Household. Progressive income-tax rates apply to each band. Employee Social Security = min(wages, $184,500) × 6.2%; Medicare = wages × 1.45%; Additional Medicare = max(0, wages − $200,000) × 0.9% for both supported statuses. Payroll taxes do not subtract the standard deduction.

The $200,000 Additional Medicare figure is the liability threshold for the supported statuses. Employer withholding also begins above $200,000 regardless of status; this is a separate rule and does not justify using that threshold for married returns. The model does not support married filing statuses or other household income.

Excludes state/local taxes, all credits (including child, dependent, EITC, education and foreign tax credits), itemized deductions, AMT, investment income/capital gains/NIIT, self-employment/QBI, retirement contributions (401(k), 403(b), IRA), HSA/FSA, health insurance and cafeteria-plan deductions, other adjustments, qualified tips/overtime/car-loan-interest and non-itemizer charitable deductions. No senior or dependent deduction rules, filing-status eligibility, special FICA exemptions, railroad compensation, bonus/commission withholding, W-4 withholding, refunds/balances due or estimated-payment safe harbors. Actual paycheck net pay can differ; omitted taxes may understate tax, while omitted deductions/credits may overstate it. Employer benefits, bonuses outside entered gross pay and other household income are excluded. This is not tax-return preparation.

United Kingdom model

United Kingdom: 2026–27, from 6 April 2026 through 5 April 2027. England, Wales and Northern Ireland only; Scotland is not supported. Wage-only employee eligible for the standard Personal Allowance, with adjusted net income equal to entered gross pay. Standard employee Class 1 National Insurance Category A, below State Pension age, one employment for the full tax year.

Personal Allowance = max(0, £12,570 − max(0, gross − £100,000) ÷ 2). It reaches zero at £125,140. Taxable wage income is gross less that allowance, floored at zero. Apply 20% to the first £37,700 of taxable income, 40% to the portion above £37,700 through £125,140, and 45% above £125,140.

Employee Category A NI uses an annualized convention: 8% of gross between £12,570 and £50,270, plus 2% above £50,270. Employer NI is not deducted. Actual employee NI is normally assessed by earnings period; this model uses annual thresholds for planning, not a director payroll method. Uneven earnings and time off can therefore differ from the annualized result. The allowance taper is continuous with no intermediate whole-pound or PAYE-table rounding.

Annualized planning estimate, not exact payslip withholding. NI uses annual thresholds (£12,570 and £50,270), not individual payroll periods; uneven earnings, time off, bonuses and pay frequency can change actual NI. Excludes employer NI, self-employed NI, director annual methods, reduced/special NI categories, multiple-job interactions, Scottish tax, pensions/salary sacrifice, student/postgraduate loans, benefits in kind, other income, Gift Aid, other reliefs (including Marriage/Blind Person’s Allowance), tax-code adjustments and withholding/refund reconciliation. Bonuses outside entered gross pay and other payroll deductions are excluded. No tax-return preparation.

Overtime and time-off assumptions

Hourly mode uses worked weeks = scheduled weeks − weeks off. Paid weeks equal scheduled weeks when time off is paid, otherwise worked weeks. Regular worked hours and regular paid hours use those separate week totals. Paid leave is valued at the entered regular hourly rate. Weeks off are subtracted once, never twice. All weeks off unpaid gives zero regular and overtime pay; all weeks off paid retains regular pay.

Optional overtime = overtime hours per worked week × worked weeks × hourly wage × entered multiplier. No overtime is paid during weeks off. A 1.5 multiplier is only an editable example; this tool does not decide legal eligibility or required rates. Salary mode hides both adjustments and treats annual salary as total annual base pay, with no unpaid-leave proration.

Raise rows use the same engine and schedule at the entered rate minus 1, the entered rate, and plus 1, 2 and 5 currency units. Out-of-range rates are omitted. Overtime rate rises with the base rate. The one-unit insight compares the entered rate with one unit higher; it is unavailable when that would exceed the hourly limit.

Worked example

At $25/hour × 40 hours/week × 52 weeks, annual gross pay is $52,000. Annualized equivalents are $52,000 ÷ 12 = $4,333.333… monthly, ÷ 26 = $2,000 biweekly, ÷ 52 = $1,000 weekly and ÷ 260 = $200 daily. Reverse conversion: $52,000 ÷ 2,080 paid hours = $25/hour. A $70,000 salary at the same hours is approximately $33.653846/hour, displayed as $33.65.

Two unpaid weeks reduce regular annual pay to $25 × 40 × 50 = $50,000; two paid weeks retain $52,000. Add five overtime hours per worked week at 1.5× with those two paid weeks off: overtime is 5 × 50 × $37.50 = $9,375, total $61,375. A $1/hour increase then changes annual pay by $2,455, not $2,080.

Optional U.S. take-home at $52,000 Single: taxable income $35,900; income tax $4,060; employee Social Security $3,224; Medicare $754; Additional Medicare $0. Total modeled federal taxes $8,038, leaving $43,962 annually or $3,663.50 monthly.

Separately, for £52,000 of UK wages in the supported regions: allowance £12,570; taxable income £39,430; Income Tax £7,540 + £692 = £8,232. Annualized employee NI £3,016 + £34.60 = £3,050.60. Estimated net £40,717.40/year or £3,393.12/month. The dollar and pound examples are independent wage amounts, not an exchange-rate comparison.

Assumptions and limitations

Gross-model limitations: Before-tax gross-pay estimate only. No income or payroll taxes, benefits, retirement deductions, bonuses, commissions, shift differentials or holiday premiums. No overtime eligibility or labor-law determination. Currency labels do not convert money. Optional country estimates have the additional U.S. and UK limitations above and beside the net results.

Inputs accept plain nonnegative decimals with at most two decimal places. Hourly wage: 0–1,000,000; annual salary: 0–1,000,000,000; regular hours/week: 0.01–168; weeks/year: 0.01–52; weeks off: 0–scheduled weeks; overtime hours/week: 0–168 with regular plus overtime capped at 168; multiplier: 0.01–10. These are computational bounds, not employment standards. A reverse hourly equivalent may exceed the hourly-mode entry ceiling when the paid-hours denominator is small.

The gross schedule repeats deterministically. No actual attendance, varying weekly hours, payroll calendar or employment contract is inferred. Inactive hourly adjustments do not affect salary results or exports. Copy exports accepted gross results and, only when enabled and valid, the active country tax estimate; inactive country drafts and invalid tax results are excluded. Closing take-home restores gross-only Copy/Print. Reset also turns take-home off and resets country drafts. Copy exports only accepted results and active assumptions; blocked clipboard access exposes selectable manual text. Print uses the browser dialog. Reset restores USD, hourly mode, 25.00/hour, 52,000 salary entry, 40 hours, 52 weeks, zero unpaid weeks off and no overtime; optional controls collapse and focus returns to pay amount.

Calculations stay in tab memory. No Share, financial URL state, local/session storage, cookies, analytics, accounts or calculation networking. Copy and Print act only when selected.

Hourly to Salary Calculator FAQ

Are the main results gross or net?

The first results are before-tax gross pay. Optional take-home estimates appear below them when expanded; they do not replace gross results.

Which countries are supported for take-home?

The United States federal model and the UK model for England, Wales and Northern Ireland are supported. Other countries are not selectable.

Which tax-rule versions are used?

U.S. rules are fixed at 2026 U.S. federal; UK rules are 2026–27. Each expanded estimate and its Copy/Print output includes the country version and sources. Years do not update automatically.

Why is take-home approximate?

The country models cover limited wage assumptions. Benefits, other income and several deductions are excluded; UK NI is annualized. Neither model reproduces exact payslip withholding or prepares a tax return.

Does the U.S. estimate include state and local taxes?

No. The federal-only result excludes state/local taxes and credits, pretax benefits and other deductions described with the result.

Does the UK estimate cover Scotland?

No. The option explicitly covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland with standard Category A employee NI. Scottish tax bands are not implemented.

What if currency does not match the country?

No tax result is produced. U.S. wages must be entered in USD and UK wages in GBP. Review the main Currency and wage amount yourself; selecting a country never changes them.

How do overtime and time off affect take-home?

The existing gross engine first applies paid/unpaid leave and optional overtime. The country model then consumes that annual gross amount. It does not determine legal overtime entitlement; annualized tax conventions may differ from payroll timing.

Does take-home work in Salary → Hourly mode?

Yes. It uses the entered annual salary, while the hourly equivalent divides salary by regular hours times paid-basis weeks. Hidden hourly-mode adjustments do not alter either annual salary or its tax base.

Does changing currency convert money?

No. Currency only changes labels and formatting. There is no FX conversion; ensure wage amounts are denominated in the currency required by the active tax model.

Tax rules & sources

Reviewed September 27, 2026. Gross conversion is a schedule-based multiplication/division model. Country tax versions are deliberate fixed snapshots; technical source/arithmetic review does not claim professional tax approval.