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What does that hourly rate come to in a year?
Convert an hourly wage into yearly, monthly and weekly pay, or turn a salary back into an hourly rate. Change the hours and weeks to match your real schedule.
Use 52 weeks if holidays and time off are paid. If two weeks a year are unpaid, use 50. Nothing you enter is saved or sent.
All figures are gross pay, before tax and deductions. Overtime, bonuses and benefits are not included.
The formula
Yearly pay is the hourly rate × hours per week × paid weeks per year. A full-time year is usually counted as 40 hours × 52 weeks = 2,080 hours, which gives a quick shortcut: double the hourly rate and add three zeros. $25 an hour is about $50,000 a year; the exact figure is $52,000.
Common hourly rates at 40 hours a week
| Hourly | Weekly | Monthly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|---|
| $15.00 | $600 | $2,600 | $31,200 |
| $18.00 | $720 | $3,120 | $37,440 |
| $20.00 | $800 | $3,467 | $41,600 |
| $25.00 | $1,000 | $4,333 | $52,000 |
| $30.00 | $1,200 | $5,200 | $62,400 |
| $40.00 | $1,600 | $6,933 | $83,200 |
| $50.00 | $2,000 | $8,667 | $104,000 |
Three things that change the answer
- Your real hours. Thirty-two hours a week at $25 is $41,600, not $52,000. Use what you are actually scheduled for.
- Unpaid time off. Hourly jobs often do not pay for holidays or sick days. Two unpaid weeks cut the year by about 4%.
- Monthly is not four weeks. A month averages 4.33 weeks, so monthly pay is the yearly figure ÷ 12, not weekly × 4.
Comparing an hourly job with a salaried one
Convert both to the same unit, then look at what the number leaves out: paid leave, health cover, retirement contributions, and whether extra hours are paid. A salary that works out to $28 an hour on paper can be less than a $26 hourly job if the salaried role regularly runs to 50 unpaid hours a week.
Know the number. Then check the payslip against it.
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