Salary to Hourly Calculator
Convert an annual salary into hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly pay, or work backwards from an hourly wage to the equivalent salary. Built for job seekers comparing offers and employees checking their real pay rate.
This salary to hourly calculator converts an annual salary into hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly pay using the 2,080-hour year (40 hours a week times 52 weeks), with adjustable hours, a reverse hourly-to-salary mode, and an optional overtime calculation at 1.5x beyond 40 hours.
Your gross yearly pay before taxes and deductions.
Subtract weeks of vacation and unpaid time off.
Overtime applies to hours beyond 40 per week.
Your pay rate per hour before taxes.
Estimates of gross pay before taxes, not financial advice. See Terms of Use.
The 2,080-hour salary rule
The 2,080-hour rule is the standard way to translate an annual salary into an hourly wage. It comes from a simple assumption: 40 hours a week multiplied by 52 weeks a year equals 2,080 hours. Divide any salary by 2,080 and you get the hourly rate it represents. A $52,000 salary becomes $25.00 an hour, and $100,000 becomes $48.08 an hour. Payroll systems, job postings, and offer letters all use this convention, which is why it is the default in this calculator.
The rule misleads when your real hours differ from 40 a week. Salaried employees are often expected to work 45 or 50 hours with no extra pay, which shrinks the true hourly rate. At 50 hours a week, that $52,000 salary is really $20.00 an hour, a 20% pay cut hiding inside the job title. Paid time off distorts the picture the other way: two weeks of vacation plus a few holidays mean you work closer to 1,950 hours, making the effective rate slightly higher than the 2,080 figure suggests.
Contractors should be the most careful with the rule. An hourly contractor billing 40 hours a week for a full year earns the full salary equivalent, but contractors rarely bill 2,080 hours. Unpaid gaps between contracts, sick days without pay, and time spent finding work all eat into the total. A contractor who bills 1,700 hours at $50 an hour earns $85,000, not the $104,000 the headline rate implies. Use the adjustable hours and weeks in this calculator to match your real schedule, not the idealized one, and you will get a number you can actually plan around.
Salary to hourly calculator questions
What is the formula to convert salary to hourly pay?
Divide your annual salary by the number of hours you work in a year. The standard is 2,080 hours (40 hours a week times 52 weeks). For example, $52,000 divided by 2,080 equals $25.00 an hour.
Does a $52,000 salary really equal $25 an hour?
Only if you actually work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. If you regularly work 45 or 50 hours of unpaid overtime, the real hourly rate is lower. At 50 hours a week, $52,000 works out to $20.00 an hour.
Should I use 2,000 or 2,080 hours?
Use 2,080 for a full work year with no time off. Two weeks of paid vacation and holidays bring most employees closer to 1,950 hours, which makes the effective hourly rate slightly higher. Adjust the weeks field in the calculator to match your actual time off.
How do I compare a salary to an hourly job with overtime?
Convert the salary to its hourly equivalent first, then add the overtime hours. Overtime usually pays 1.5 times the regular rate beyond 40 hours a week. This calculator does it for you: turn on the overtime toggle and enter your extra hours to see the effective hourly pay.