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Salary to Hourly Calculator
Turn a yearly salary into an equivalent hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly rate based on your real working hours, or convert an hourly rate into an annual salary.
Unpaid time off, e.g. vacation.
Hourly rate
$30.00
Per day
$240.00
Per week
$1,200.00
Per month
$5,000.00
Working time
2,000 hrs/yr
50 working weeks
This converts gross pay only and assumes a steady schedule. It doesn't account for taxes, benefits, overtime, or unpaid breaks. If you're a freelancer, your billable hours are usually well below your worked hours — use the freelance rate calculator for that.
Why your real hours matter
Converting salary to an hourly rate is only accurate if you use the hours you genuinely work. A flat 2,080-hour year overstates your availability if you take vacation or work fewer than 40 hours a week. Adjusting for weeks off gives you a truer hourly figure to compare against contract or freelance offers.
Comparing a job offer to freelancing
When weighing a salaried role against freelance work, remember that an employer typically covers part of your taxes, plus benefits and paid time off. A freelancer needs a higher headline rate to match the same take-home pay.
Set a rate that actually sustains you
If you're pricing freelance work, start from your income goal and billable hours with our freelance rate calculator rather than a straight salary conversion.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Divide the annual salary by the number of hours you actually work in a year. We calculate yearly hours as your weekly hours times the number of working weeks (52 minus your weeks off), so the result reflects your real schedule rather than a flat 2,080-hour assumption.
A common baseline is 2,080 hours (40 hours × 52 weeks), but that ignores time off. If you take 2 weeks off, you work about 2,000 hours; 4 weeks off is roughly 1,920 hours. This calculator uses your inputs so the figure matches your situation.
No — it converts gross pay only. Your take-home rate will be lower after income tax, and for the self-employed, self-employment tax. Use a tax calculator to estimate net pay.
Not directly. Freelancers can't bill every worked hour — admin, sales, and downtime eat into billable time, and you cover your own taxes, benefits, and expenses. Use our freelance rate calculator to set a sustainable rate.
Yes. It's completely free with no signup, and it runs entirely in your browser.
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