Free Salary to Hourly Calculator (+ Guide)

What is a salary to hourly calculator?

A salary to hourly calculator turns a salary into the hourly rate it works out to.

It's for comparing a salaried job with an hourly one, or a job offer with freelance work.

How salary becomes hourly

The math is the salary divided by the hours you actually work in a year.

A worked example

Here's the example the calculator loads: $60,000 a year, 40 hours a week, 52 paid weeks.

$60,000 ÷ (40 × 52) = $60,000 ÷ 2,080 = $28.85 an hour, or $230.77 a day over 5 days.

The hours that change the answer

The same salary pays less an hour the more you work.

Mistakes to avoid

These are the slips that come up most.

• Dividing by 2,080 when you really work more than 40 hours
• Forgetting unpaid weeks between contracts
• Comparing a pre-tax salary with take-home hourly pay

Who is the salary to hourly calculator for?

It's for anyone weighing a job offer, a raise or freelance work, and these tools help around it.

• Hourly to salary calculator – for the other direction
• Freelance rate calculator – for what to charge as a freelancer
• Currency converter – for a salary in another currency

Know your hourly rate, and every offer gets easier to compare.