Hourly to salary calculator

How this calculator works

An Hourly to Salary Calculator annualizes your wage so you can compare hourly jobs to salaried listings. HourPunch multiplies your hourly rate by hours per week for weekly gross, then by weeks per year for annual salary, and divides annual pay by twelve for a monthly estimate. It also shows a time-and-a-half hourly rate for quick overtime comparisons.

Defaults assume forty hours and fifty-two weeks. Lower either field for part-time or seasonal work. Tips, overtime actually worked, and unpaid time off are not averaged in—you are modeling a steady schedule. Missing or zero hours clears salary results instead of showing misleading numbers.

Budgeting apps and mortgage worksheets often ask for annual income while you earn hourly wages. Annualizing here gives a single number for those forms without hand-multiplying on a calculator. Cost-of-living conversations between cities also start from annual figures even when local jobs list hourly pay.

Tips, commission, and overtime weeks you actually work can push real annual income above or below this steady-schedule estimate. Lower weeks-per-year when you know you are unpaid for several weeks each summer. Compare monthly output to salaried listings that quote monthly budgets, remembering real deposits may follow biweekly cycles instead.

Offer comparisons often pair this annual figure with benefits brochures that still quote hourly shift pay. Seeing both numbers helps you decide whether a salaried title truly beats an hourly schedule with predictable overtime. None of these outputs include tax withholding or employer match on retirement contributions.

Students comparing campus jobs to post-grad offers can enter summer hours separately from academic-year weeks by running the tool twice with different week counts. Neither run replaces an employer’s written offer, but both help you ask clearer questions about expected hours before you sign.

Worked example

At twenty-five dollars an hour, forty hours per week, weekly pay estimates to one thousand dollars. Over fifty-two weeks, annual salary estimates to fifty-two thousand dollars. Monthly pay estimates to four thousand three hundred thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents after rounding to cents. The overtime comparison rate at one and a half times base is thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per hour.

Real paychecks vary with overtime weeks and deductions. Use these totals as estimates for checking a pay stub or job posting, not payroll or tax advice. For per-check biweekly gross from average hours, try the biweekly pay calculator. Write down the annual figure when you update your resume so offer calls use the same assumptions about hours and weeks.

Totals shown here are estimates for checking a pay stub or time sheet. They are not official payroll, tax, or legal advice.