Hourly to Annual Converter
Convert between hourly, weekly, monthly and annual pay.
| Frequency | Gross pay |
|---|---|
| Annual | 52,000 |
| Monthly | 4,333 |
| Weekly | 1,000 |
| Daily (8h) | 200 |
Convert any pay rate between hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and annual figures. Useful for comparing a contract day-rate to a salaried offer, or working out what an hourly wage adds up to over a year.
Enter your hourly rate and typical hours to see the equivalent gross pay at every frequency. Run the annual figure through a country calculator to get the after-tax take-home.
What the conversion assumes
The standard conversion is 40 hours a week over 52 weeks, or 2,080 hours a year. It is a convention, not a fact about your job. Paid holiday is already inside it: a salaried employee with 25 days off is paid for 2,080 hours and works fewer of them, which makes their real hourly rate higher than the conversion suggests.
For hourly and contract workers the opposite applies. Unpaid holiday, unpaid sick days and gaps between contracts all come out of the 2,080. If you bill 210 days rather than 260, your effective annual figure is roughly 80% of the naive conversion before any tax is considered.
Comparing an hourly offer with a salaried one
Convert both to the same basis and then adjust for what each includes. A salaried role bundles paid leave, sick pay, employer pension contributions, notice periods and often insurance. An hourly rate rarely bundles any of it, so a like-for-like comparison usually needs the hourly figure marked up substantially before it is genuinely equivalent.
Then apply tax, because the two can be taxed differently, particularly where the hourly work is self-employed rather than employed. The gross comparison and the net comparison can point in opposite directions, and the net one is the one you live on.
Overtime, part-time and the rates that apply
Overtime is taxed at your marginal rate like any other additional income, so the premium is worth less than the multiplier implies: time-and-a-half at a 40% marginal rate nets roughly the same as normal hours at a 10% rate. Whether it is worth doing is a question about your time, not a question about tax.
Part-time work cuts the other way. A lower annual total sits in lower bands, so the effective rate falls and each hour keeps more of its gross value. That is why dropping from five days to four rarely costs a full 20% of take-home.
Freelance, contract and zero-hours rates
A contract or freelance rate is not comparable to an employee hourly rate even before tax, because it is carrying costs the employee never sees: no employer pension contribution, no paid leave, no sick pay, no notice period, and in most countries both halves of the social contributions rather than one.
Zero-hours and variable-shift work adds a third problem, which is that the annual figure is not knowable in advance. Converting a rate at 2,080 hours describes a full-time year you may not get. Where hours vary, convert at the number of hours you have genuinely averaged over the last six months rather than at the contractual maximum, and treat anything above that as upside.
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Frequently Asked Questions
+How do I convert hourly pay to an annual salary?
Multiply your hourly rate by hours worked per week and by the number of paid weeks per year (often 52). For example, $25/hour at 40 hours over 52 weeks is $52,000 a year gross.
Estimate only — not tax advice. Figures are estimates based on publicly available tax rules and may not reflect your full circumstances. See our methodology & sources (last reviewed June 2026). Always confirm with an official tax authority or a licensed adviser before making decisions.