Wage Conversion Calculator
A job posting says $20 an hour, a second says $41,600 a year, and a third quotes $3,466.67 a month. This wage conversion calculator turns any one of those figures into all six pay periods at once: hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly and yearly, using your real hours per week instead of assuming a 40-hour week you may not work. Every result is gross pay, before tax.
Gross pay only: no taxes, benefits or overtime. Monthly is yearly pay divided by 12 (52/12 weeks per month) and the daily figure spreads your week over 5 days; both conventions are explained under the formulas below. Only the yearly figure is printed with thousands separators, exactly as the original tool formatted it.
Quick Answer
$20 an hour at 40 hours a week is $160.00 a day, $800.00 a week, $1,600.00 biweekly, $3,466.67 a month and $41,600.00 a year, all gross. The calculator runs the same conversion starting from any of the six periods, so a $52,000 salary entered as Yearly reads back as $25.00 an hour. One convention to know: the daily figure spreads your week over 5 days (see the formulas section). The monthly figure is exactly the yearly figure divided by 12 (rounded to cents for display).
Key takeaways
- Every conversion runs through the hourly rate first: find the hourly rate from whatever period you know, then rebuild the other five periods from it.
- Hours per week drives everything. The same $20 rate is $41,600 a year at 40 hours and $19,500 at 25 hours, which is why job offers should always be compared at your real schedule.
- Monthly pay here is hourly × hours × 52/12, which is exactly yearly ÷ 12 (rounded to cents for display), with no gap to explain away.
- All six figures are gross. Taxes, benefits and overtime sit outside this tool, and the sections below quantify each one.
- Quick Answer
- How to use the wage conversion calculator
- The conversion formulas, and the one convention most tools hide
- Worked example: $20 an hour, 40 hours a week
- Hourly rates as weekly, monthly and yearly pay at 40 hours
- What competing calculators miss
- A converted wage is gross pay, not take-home pay
- Full-time, part-time, and what the hours field cannot do
- Frequently asked questions
- Add This Calculator to Your Website
- References
How to use the wage conversion calculator
Enter the one pay figure you know, say which period it belongs to, and set your hours. The results stay hidden until you calculate.
- Enter your wage amount: the figure from the offer, contract or payslip. The worked example uses $20.
- Pick the wage type: Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly or Yearly, whichever matches the amount you typed.
- Set hours per week: your normal scheduled hours. Use 40 for standard full-time, or your real part-time hours.
- Click Calculate: all six periods appear together, with a badge naming the schedule (full-time at 40 hours or more, part-time below that).
- Copy or share the six figures with the buttons in the results box when you want to keep them next to a job offer.
The tool is forgiving about empty fields: a blank wage amount counts as $0 and a blank or zero hours field falls back to 40 hours, so you always get a result instead of an error. Negative amounts and negative hours are not blocked either; they simply flip the signs of the outputs, which is a sign the input needs a second look.
The conversion formulas, and the one convention most tools hide
Every direction runs through the hourly rate. The calculator first divides your amount down to an hourly rate, then multiplies back up into each period.
Step 2, rebuild each period: Daily = hourly × (hours per week ÷ 5) · Weekly = hourly × hours per week · Biweekly = weekly × 2 · Monthly = hourly × hours per week × 52/12 · Yearly = hourly × hours per week × 52
The month itself is now exact, not a convention to argue about. A month is 52 ÷ 12 weeks, so monthly pay is hourly × hours per week × 52/12, which is exactly the yearly figure divided by 12: at $20 an hour the monthly figure is $3,466.67, the yearly $41,600.00 divided by 12 and rounded to cents, with no $32 gap. An older version of this page used a rounded weeks-per-month figure instead, which landed $32 a year below the yearly figure at this rate; that inconsistency is fixed, and a pay offer should still be checked against the one your payroll actually uses.
The convention that remains is the daily figure, which always spreads the week over 5 days, whatever your schedule. At 40 hours that is the familiar 8-hour day. At 30 hours it assumes five 6-hour days, so if you actually work three 10-hour days, your real day rate is 10 times your hourly rate, not the figure in the Daily row. The old version of this page never mentioned the daily convention at all. The month, by contrast, is now computed exactly as yearly divided by 12, so the formula section and the tool agree.
Worked example: $20 an hour, 40 hours a week
The pre-filled example is the standard full-time case. Running it produces all six periods in one pass:
| Period | $20/hr, 40 hrs | $15/hr, 25 hrs (part-time) | $52,000 salary entered as Yearly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly | $20.00 | $15.00 | $25.00 |
| Daily | $160.00 | $75.00 | $200.00 |
| Weekly | $800.00 | $375.00 | $1,000.00 |
| Bi-weekly | $1,600.00 | $750.00 | $2,000.00 |
| Monthly | $3,466.67 | $1,625.00 | $4,333.33 |
| Yearly | $41,600.00 | $19,500.00 | $52,000.00 |
Every cell in that table is a real run of the tool above, including the part-time column: $15 an hour at 25 hours a week gives a $75.00 daily figure because the tool divides the 25 hours by 5 days. Entering $200 as a Daily amount at 40 hours returns the third column too, since $200 a day and $52,000 a year are the same job described two ways. If you only need the salary-to-rate direction, the dedicated annual income to hourly calculator walks through that one conversion in more depth, and the monthly to hourly rate calculator covers the monthly starting point.
Hourly rates as weekly, monthly and yearly pay at 40 hours
At a fixed 40-hour week, each hourly rate maps to one row. These are this tool’s own outputs, so the monthly column is exactly the yearly column divided by 12.
| Hourly | Daily | Weekly | Monthly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $15.00 | $120.00 | $600.00 | $2,600.00 | $31,200.00 |
| $20.00 | $160.00 | $800.00 | $3,466.67 | $41,600.00 |
| $25.00 | $200.00 | $1,000.00 | $4,333.33 | $52,000.00 |
| $30.00 | $240.00 | $1,200.00 | $5,200.00 | $62,400.00 |
| $40.00 | $320.00 | $1,600.00 | $6,933.33 | $83,200.00 |
| $50.00 | $400.00 | $2,000.00 | $8,666.67 | $104,000.00 |
The yearly column doubles as a quick mental check: at 40 hours a week, the annual salary is the hourly rate times 2,080. The bars below show how the yearly figures scale across the same rates.
What competing calculators miss
Hourly-to-salary tools are everywhere, and most are built around a single direction. The gaps below are the ones that matter when the figure you start from is not an hourly rate:
- Hourly-only converters (CoolConversion, hourly2salary, CalcMatePro): clean tables and instant results, but the entry point is always an hourly wage. If the offer in front of you is a monthly salary or a biweekly check, you do the reverse division by hand before their tool can start. This calculator accepts any of the six periods as the starting point.
- Tools with a weeks-per-year field (Pocket Clear, hourlyratecalc): genuinely better for workers with unpaid time off, and this page is honest that its tool fixes the year at 52 weeks. The workaround is simple arithmetic: for 50 paid weeks, multiply the yearly result by 50 ÷ 52. hourlyratecalc also layers on a 2026 after-tax estimate, which depends on filing-status assumptions a gross conversion tool should not silently bake in.
- Calendar-exact monthly math (NumericCore): monthly as annual ÷ 12 and biweekly as annual ÷ 26, which is internally tidy. Our tool now does the same: monthly is annual ÷ 12, so the $32-a-year gap the old rounded month created at $20 an hour is gone.
- Converters that add a semi-monthly row (CalcMatePro): a real extra period (24 checks a year) that this tool does not output. If you are paid twice a month, divide the yearly figure by 24 to get each check; the FAQ below works that case.
- The gap this page fills: all six periods from any starting period, your actual hours per week applied in every direction, and the daily-split convention (5-day split) stated on the page instead of buried in the code, with the month computed exactly as yearly divided by 12.
A converted wage is gross pay, not take-home pay
The six figures describe your pay before anything is taken out or added on. Three adjustments decide what the same wage is really worth, and each has an official yardstick:
Overtime. The conversion prices every hour at the same rate. According to the US Department of Labor’s overtime pay guidance under the Fair Labor Standards Act, covered nonexempt employees must receive at least one and one-half times their regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek. A 45-hour week at $20 an hour therefore pays $950, not the $900 flat conversion: 40 hours at $20 plus 5 hours at $30. If overtime is a regular part of a job you are comparing, price those extra hours separately.
Taxes and deductions. Federal and state income tax, Social Security and Medicare, health premiums and retirement contributions all come out of the gross figures here. Two offers with identical converted salaries can leave quite different take-home pay, especially across states. Convert first to compare the offers on equal terms, then run the winner through a paycheck calculator for the net figure.
Raises and indexation. A conversion also frames a raise: an extra $1 an hour at 40 hours is $2,080 a year. The hourly raise calculator prices a raise directly, and once you know your converted wage, the wage index calculator shows whether that wage has kept pace when pay is adjusted by an official wage index.
Full-time, part-time, and what the hours field cannot do
The hours-per-week field is the one setting that changes every answer, and it deserves honest limits. It assumes the same hours every week of a 52-week year: there is no weeks-per-year input, so unpaid vacation cannot be entered directly. For two unpaid weeks, take the yearly result and multiply by 50 ÷ 52; at $20 an hour that turns $41,600 into $40,000, a $1,600 difference that matters in an offer comparison.
The daily figure carries the second limit, covered in the formulas: the week is always split across 5 days. Compressed schedules (four 10-hour days, three 12-hour days) make the Daily row an average, not your actual day rate. Your true day rate on a compressed schedule is your hourly rate times the hours in one shift. Everything else on the page, weekly through yearly, is unaffected by how the days are arranged, because those figures only depend on total hours.
Frequently asked questions
Multiply the hourly rate by your hours per week, then by 52. At $20 an hour and 40 hours a week that is $20 × 40 × 52 = $41,600 a year. Enter the rate as Hourly in the calculator and the Yearly row shows the same figure.
Yes. This calculator builds monthly pay as hourly rate × hours per week × 52/12, which is exactly the yearly figure divided by 12: $20 an hour gives $3,466.67 a month, the yearly $41,600 divided by 12 and rounded to cents. An older version used a rounded weeks-per-month figure, which ran $32 a year low at this rate; that gap is fixed.
Enter the salary with Yearly selected and read the Hourly row. A $52,000 salary at 40 hours a week converts to $25.00 an hour, because $52,000 ÷ (40 × 52) = $25.00. The same run also shows the daily, weekly, biweekly and monthly equivalents.
No. Every figure is gross pay before taxes, benefits and deductions, and there is no overtime input. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, covered nonexempt workers earn at least 1.5 times their regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek, so a week with overtime pays more than the flat conversion shows.
It assumes the weekly hours are spread over 5 days: daily pay is the hourly rate × (hours per week ÷ 5). At 40 hours that is an 8-hour day. If you work four 10-hour days, your true daily pay is 10 × your hourly rate, which is higher than the figure shown here.
Enter your actual scheduled hours, such as 25. Every output scales with that number: $15 an hour at 25 hours a week gives $375.00 a week and $19,500.00 a year. Leaving the field blank or entering 0 makes the calculator fall back to 40 hours.
No. Biweekly means every two weeks, which is 26 checks a year. Twice a month (semimonthly) is 24 checks a year, so each semimonthly check is larger for the same salary. This calculator shows biweekly pay and has no semimonthly row, so divide the yearly figure by 24 if you need that check size.
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References
- US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division. Overtime Pay (FLSA overtime at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek; no averaging of hours across weeks). Accessed October 24, 2026.
- US Department of Labor, elaws Advisors. Fair Labor Standards Act Advisor: When is overtime pay due? (40-hour standard, state-law interaction, special cases for public safety and hospital staff). Accessed October 24, 2026.
- US Department of Labor, elaws Advisors. FLSA Overtime Calculator Advisor for Nonexempt Employees (the regular rate is total pay for the workweek divided by total hours actually worked, the method behind salary-to-hourly conversion). Accessed October 24, 2026.
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers, 2025 (USDL-26-0119) (median weekly earnings of full-time workers were $1,204 in 2025). Accessed October 24, 2026.
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, December 2025 (USDL-26-0505) (private industry: wages and salaries $32.36 per hour worked, 70.1% of employer costs; benefits $13.79, 29.9%). Accessed October 24, 2026.
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employment Cost Index, December 2025 (USDL-26-0184) (wages and salaries for civilian workers rose 3.3% in the 12 months ending December 2025, the backdrop for raise comparisons). Accessed October 24, 2026.
- Internal Revenue Service. Employment Taxes (the federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare taxes withheld from gross pay, which is why the converted figures here are before tax). Accessed October 24, 2026.
- Internal Revenue Service. Topic No. 751, Social Security and Medicare Withholding Rates (the Social Security and Medicare withholding taken out of the gross figures in the taxes and deductions section). Accessed October 24, 2026.
- Social Security Administration. Contribution and Benefit Base (the annual Social Security wage base that caps the Social Security part of the payroll tax deducted from gross pay). Accessed October 24, 2026.
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Handbook of Methods: Employment Cost Index (how the ECI behind the raise-comparison figure on this page is constructed and what its wage and salary series measures). Accessed October 24, 2026.
- US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (the federal wage and overtime framework behind the overtime section: coverage, the regular rate and the 40-hour workweek standard). Accessed October 24, 2026.