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Whether you are comparing a job offer, negotiating a salary, or trying to understand your true hourly rate, this salary calculator instantly converts between all common pay periods. Type in your hourly rate to see annual salary, or enter your annual salary to find your equivalent hourly wage. The federal tax estimate gives you a rough sense of your take-home pay based on 2026 brackets. All calculations run in your browser — your data never leaves your device.
Salary conversions use simple arithmetic based on the number of working hours, days, weeks, and months in a year. The standard assumptions are 40 hours per week and 52 weeks per year, but these are adjustable to reflect your actual schedule. All conversions flow from a single consistent annual figure:
Annual = Hourly × Hours/Week × (52 − Vacation Weeks)
Monthly = Annual ÷ 12
Biweekly = Annual ÷ 26
Weekly = Annual ÷ 52
Daily = Hourly × Hours/Day
The federal tax estimate uses 2026 income tax brackets and standard deductions to approximate your annual tax liability, then divides by your pay period count to show per-paycheck withholding. It also applies 6.2% Social Security tax (up to the wage base) and 1.45% Medicare tax. This estimate is approximate — actual withholding depends on your W-4 elections, pre-tax benefits, and state taxes, which are handled more precisely in the paycheck calculator.
Alex receives a job offer at $25/hour, working 40 hours per week. The company offers 10 days of paid vacation. Alex wants to understand the full salary picture before comparing it to a current salaried position at $52,000/year.
Annual salary: $25 × 40 hours × 52 weeks = $52,000/year. The jobs pay identically on paper. But the hourly role allows overtime: if Alex works 5 hours of overtime per week, annual earnings jump to $52,000 + ($37.50/hr overtime × 5 hrs × 52 weeks) = $52,000 + $9,750 = $61,750/year.
Breaking down the $52,000 base: Monthly = $4,333. Biweekly paycheck (gross) = $2,000. Estimated federal income tax for a single filer: roughly $6,100/year. Social Security: $3,224. Medicare: $754. Federal taxes total: ~$10,078/year, leaving estimated annual net pay of about $41,900, or roughly $1,612 per biweekly paycheck after federal taxes only. State income taxes would reduce take-home further.
To convert hourly to annual salary, multiply your hourly rate by your hours per week, then by 52 weeks per year. The standard formula is: hourly × 40 hours × 52 weeks = annual salary. At $25/hour that equals $52,000/year. If you take paid vacation, your annual earnings stay the same but your hourly equivalent shifts slightly depending on how you count those days. Our salary calculator adjusts for actual working hours and vacation days so you get a more accurate comparison, especially when evaluating job offers with different benefits packages.
$20 per hour equals $41,600 per year at standard full-time hours (40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year). After accounting for 10 paid vacation days, your working hours drop slightly, but your annual pay stays at $41,600 since vacation days are paid. Biweekly, that is a gross paycheck of $1,600 before taxes. After federal income tax, Social Security (6.2%), and Medicare (1.45%), a single filer with no deductions would take home roughly $1,300–$1,350 biweekly, depending on filing status and state taxes.
A standard work year contains 2,080 hours (40 hours × 52 weeks). After subtracting 10 federal holidays, the typical working year is around 1,960–2,000 hours, depending on your employer's holiday schedule. If you also take 10 days of vacation, your actual worked hours may be closer to 1,880–1,920. Our salary calculator lets you input your actual hours per week and number of vacation days to produce a precise conversion that reflects your real working schedule rather than a theoretical standard.
Biweekly pay means you receive a paycheck every two weeks — 26 paychecks per year. Semimonthly pay is issued twice per calendar month, on set dates like the 1st and 15th — 24 paychecks per year. If your annual salary is the same, biweekly paychecks are slightly smaller ($52,000 / 26 = $2,000) than semimonthly ($52,000 / 24 = $2,167). However, biweekly employees receive two extra paychecks per year compared to semimonthly. This matters for budgeting since those two "extra" months can help with annual expenses like insurance or holiday costs.
Under federal law (FLSA), overtime is paid at 1.5× your regular hourly rate for all hours worked beyond 40 in a single workweek. If your regular rate is $22/hour, your overtime rate is $33/hour. Some states — including California — require daily overtime for hours beyond 8 in a day. To calculate total weekly pay with overtime: (40 × regular rate) + (overtime hours × 1.5 × regular rate). Our salary calculator factors in weekly overtime hours so you can see the impact on your annual income and determine your effective hourly rate when overtime is included.