Compensation
Convert an annual salary to an hourly rate instantly, with the weekly, biweekly and monthly breakdown alongside it.
52 calendar weeks in a year, which translates to about 46 to 49 actual work weeks after subtracting paid time off and holidays.
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Jump straight to the hourly rate for a common annual salary — each link shows the answer before you click.
Converting a yearly salary into an hourly rate is the fastest way to compare a salaried offer against hourly work, sanity-check a pay rate against minimum wage, or figure out what a raise actually adds up to per hour worked. The math is simple once you know the right number of hours to divide by.
Hourly Rate = Annual Salary / (Hours Per Week × Weeks Per Year)
For a standard full-time schedule of 40 hours a week worked all 52 weeks of the year, that denominator is 2,080 hours. A $70,000 salary divided by 2,080 hours works out to $33.65 an hour. A $50,000 salary works out to $24.04 an hour, and a $100,000 salary works out to $48.08 an hour.
A salaried employee is paid a fixed amount regardless of hours worked in a given week, while an hourly employee is paid for each hour actually worked and is typically eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act when they exceed 40 hours. Converting a salary to an hourly rate does not change which category a role falls into — it is simply a way to express the same compensation on a per-hour basis for comparison.
The 2,080-hour baseline assumes every week is paid. If unpaid time off, unpaid holidays, or a part-time schedule reduce your actual paid weeks or hours, your effective hourly rate on paid hours stays the same, but the number of hours you are paid for in a year goes down — which is really a question about total annual pay, not the hourly rate itself. Use the "Hours Per Week" and "Weeks Per Year" fields above to model a schedule that is not the standard 40x52 and see how the weekly, biweekly and monthly figures shift.
When writing a job offer or comparing candidates across salaried and hourly roles, expressing compensation on a common hourly basis makes it easy to benchmark against market rate, check compliance with local minimum-wage or exempt-status thresholds, and explain total compensation to a candidate who is used to thinking in an hourly wage rather than an annual figure. It is a small calculation, but getting it wrong in an offer letter is a fast way to lose a candidate's trust.
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Divide your annual salary by the number of hours you work in a year — typically 2,080 hours for a full-time schedule of 40 hours a week for 52 weeks. For example, $70,000 / 2,080 = $33.65 an hour.
A standard full-time year is 2,080 hours: 40 hours a week x 52 weeks. Adjust this if you work part-time hours, take unpaid leave, or work a non-standard week — the calculator above lets you change both inputs.
$70,000 a year works out to $33.65 an hour — several times the federal minimum wage and above what the median US worker earns. Whether it is "good" depends heavily on your location, household size, and cost of living.
No. Every figure on this page is gross pay before federal, state, and local taxes, and before any benefits deductions. Your actual take-home hourly rate will be lower.
The default calculation assumes a standard 40-hour week with no overtime. If you work fewer or more hours per week, or fewer weeks per year, update "Hours Per Week" and "Weeks Per Year" above to get an accurate hourly rate for your own schedule.
This calculator converts gross (pre-tax) annual salary into a gross hourly rate. Take-home pay also depends on tax withholding, retirement contributions, health insurance premiums, and other deductions specific to you.
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