The Hourly to Salary Converter
Turn any wage into pay by the hour, week, month, and year. Compare offers apples to apples.
Job listings love to hide the ball. One posts an hourly rate, the next posts a yearly salary, and comparing them in your head is a mess. This converter turns any wage into all the others in a blink, so you can see what an offer really means and compare apples to apples.
The Hourly to Salary Converter
Enter what you know and see your pay by the hour, week, month, and year.
This is your gross pay, before taxes. Your take-home will be lower once taxes and deductions come out, usually somewhere in the range of 20 to 30 percent for most workers. Handy for comparing offers, but budget off your actual take-home pay, not this number.
The 2,080 hour shortcut
A standard full-time year is about 2,080 hours, which is 40 hours a week across 52 weeks. That is why a quick way to turn an hourly wage into a yearly salary is to multiply by 2,000 and round up a little. Fifteen dollars an hour is roughly $31,000 a year. Thirty dollars an hour is roughly $62,000. It is a rough shortcut, but it gets you close enough to size up an offer on the spot.
Why the weeks matter
If you are paid hourly and take unpaid time off, your real yearly pay drops, because you only earn while the clock runs. A salaried worker usually gets paid the same whether they take a vacation week or not. That is one of the quiet differences between hourly and salaried work, and it is worth doing the math on before you compare two offers that look similar on paper.
This is general education, not personal advice, so check with a licensed professional about your situation.
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