Salary Calculator

How to use the salary calculator

1. Enter your pay and choose how often it’s paid: per hour, per day, per week, every two weeks, twice a month, per month, per quarter or per year.
2. Set your hours and days per week. The defaults are a standard 40-hour, 5-day week; change them for part-time work or a compressed schedule such as four 10-hour days.
3. Optionally add holidays and vacation days (under “Holidays & vacation”). The defaults are the 11 federal holidays and 10 vacation days.
4. Read the table. The unadjusted column assumes you’re paid for every working day; the adjusted column accounts for your days off. Copy the link to share or save the result.

How to convert hourly pay to a salary

Multiply your hourly wage by the hours you work each week, then by 52 weeks. To go the other way, divide the salary by the same number of hours.

For an hourly wage, the adjusted column scales the year by the share of working days you actually work:

Worked example

At R = $25 and h = 40, S = $25 × 40 × 52 = $52,000 a year. With a 5-day week there are D = 5 × 52 = 260 working days. Taking H = 11 holidays and V = 10 vacation days leaves 239 days, so the factor is 239 ÷ 260 = 0.9192 and the adjusted pay is $52,000 × 0.9192 = $47,800, the amount you’d earn if those days were unpaid.

For a salaried worker the same days off work the other way: a $52,000 salary covers 1,912 hours actually worked instead of 2,080, so the effective pay is $52,000 ÷ 1,912 = $27.20 per hour worked. That’s why, when you enter a salary, the calculator adjusts the hourly and daily rows instead of the annual one.

Quick mental math

To estimate a salary, double the hourly wage and add three zeros: $25 an hour is roughly $50,000 (exactly $52,000). To estimate an hourly rate, halve the salary in thousands: $60,000 is roughly $30 an hour (exactly $28.85). The shortcut uses 2,000 hours, which is 50 weeks of 40 hours, so it already assumes about two weeks of unpaid time off.

Hourly wage to annual salary table

Gross pay at 40 hours a week and 52 weeks a year (2,080 hours), assuming paid holidays and vacation:

Annual salary to hourly wage table

The same conversion in reverse, based on 2,080 paid hours a year:

Bi-weekly vs. semi-monthly paychecks

The pay frequency changes the size of each paycheck, not what you earn in a year. Here is a $52,000 salary split by the four common schedules:

• Bi-weekly pay arrives every other week, on the same weekday. Because 26 paychecks don’t divide evenly into 12 months, two months each year have three paydays.
• Semi-monthly pay arrives twice a month on set dates (often the 15th and the last day), so every month looks the same, but each check is $166.67 bigger than a bi-weekly one on this salary.
• Watch the 27th paycheck. Twenty-six two-week periods cover only 364 days, so a bi-weekly schedule drifts a day each year (two in leap years). Roughly once every 11 years a calendar year has 27 bi-weekly paydays; employers typically either pay the extra check or divide the salary by 27 that year.
• Don’t multiply weekly pay by 4 to get a monthly figure: $1,000 × 4 = $4,000, but the real monthly average is $4,333.33.

Should you adjust for holidays and vacation?

It depends on whether your time off is paid. Federal law doesn’t require it: the Fair Labor Standards Act does not require payment for time not worked, such as vacations or holidays, so paid time off is up to your employer (or a union contract) unless your state or city requires something more.

• Hourly workers without paid time off should use the adjusted column; every day off is a day without pay. With 11 holidays and 10 vacation days off, $25 an hour yields $47,800 rather than $52,000.
• Salaried workers and hourly workers with paid leave earn the unadjusted amount; the adjusted hourly row shows what you really earn per hour on the job.

The federal government observes 11 holidays a year: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday, Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Private employers choose their own list, and many give fewer. For vacation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that in 2026, 32% of private-industry workers received 10 to 14 days of paid vacation after one year of service.

Exempt vs. non-exempt: who gets overtime

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, covered employees who aren’t exempt must be paid at least time-and-a-half their regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek. The workweek is any fixed, recurring seven-day period, and hours can’t be averaged across two weeks. Weekends and holidays don’t earn a federal premium by themselves.

For example, at $25 an hour, a 45-hour week pays 5 hours at $37.50, for $1,187.50 instead of $1,125 at straight time. The calculator flags this when you enter an hourly or daily rate with more than 40 hours a week. If you also want the new federal tax deduction for overtime, see our no tax on overtime calculator.

Exempt employees don’t get overtime. For the executive, administrative and professional exemptions, the Department of Labor currently requires a salary of at least $684 a week ($35,568 a year, or $17.10 an hour at 40 hours) paid on a salary basis, plus job duties that meet the exemption tests. Highly compensated employees earning at least $107,432 a year face a lighter duties test. Being salaried doesn’t make you exempt: a salaried employee below the threshold, or whose duties don’t qualify, is still owed overtime. Some states have their own overtime rules that go further than federal law.

Minimum wage and typical pay as a salary

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, unchanged since July 24, 2009. Full time, that’s $290 a week or $15,080 a year. Many states and cities set higher minimums, and employers must meet whichever standard gives workers more.

For comparison, the median full-time wage and salary worker earned $1,251 a week in the second quarter of 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s about $65,052 a year, or $31.28 an hour at 40 hours a week.

From gross salary to take-home pay

The salary calculator shows gross pay. Your paycheck is smaller after federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare, any state or local income tax, and deductions like 401(k) contributions and health insurance. To see the real numbers:

• Use the paycheck calculator for take-home pay per paycheck in your state.
• Use the income tax calculator to estimate your yearly federal and state tax bill and your refund.
• Use the 401(k) calculator to see what saving a percentage of your salary could grow to.
• Comparing a raise or job offer? Check it against rising prices with the inflation calculator (consumer prices rose 3.4% in the 12 months through August 2026, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Common hourly wages and salaries

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