Salary Calculator
Convert pay in either direction: enter an hourly rate to see the yearly salary it works out to, or enter an annual salary to break it down into monthly, biweekly, weekly, and hourly pay. The calculator uses the same convention as the Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data on this site — a full-time year is 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, or 2,080 hours — but you can change the hours per week to model part-time or overtime-heavy schedules.
How the conversion works
The math is simple multiplication and division, but the assumptions matter. Annual salary equals the hourly rate multiplied by hours worked per week multiplied by weeks worked per year. At the standard full-time schedule — 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year — that is the hourly rate times 2,080. So a job paying $25.00 an hour full-time is a $52,000-a-year job, and a $75,000 salary works out to about $36.06 an hour. If you work 37.5 hours a week, a common schedule in government and healthcare, the multiplier is 1,950 instead; if you regularly work 45 hours, it is 2,340, which is why two people with the same salary can have quite different effective hourly rates.
Worked example: a registered nurse's pay
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a median hourly wage of $45.00 for registered nurses in May 2024. Multiply by 2,080 hours and you get $93,600 — exactly the median annual wage BLS publishes for the occupation, which is how the agency itself converts hourly rates to annual figures. The mean tells a slightly different story: at $98,430 a year, the average nurse earns more than the median nurse because experienced, specialized, and overtime-heavy nurses pull the average up. Try both figures in the calculator to see the difference in monthly terms — roughly the cost of a car payment.
What a salary breakdown does not show
These conversions are gross pay, before income tax, payroll tax, health insurance premiums, and retirement contributions, so take-home pay will be noticeably lower — commonly 70–85% of the gross figure depending on your state and benefits. The calculator also assumes paid time is worked time: unpaid leave, unpaid internships, and seasonal schedules with fewer than 52 paid weeks all reduce real annual earnings below the converted number. Bonuses, overtime premiums, shift differentials, and commissions sit on top of base pay and are not included. Finally, salary is only one part of compensation: an employer paying into a pension or covering most of a health premium can be worth several thousand dollars a year more than a slightly higher salary without those benefits. Use the breakdowns here to compare offers on equal terms, then check the occupation pages on this site to see whether an offer sits above or below the typical wage for your state.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2024 — bls.gov/oes. Figures checked October 2026.