Free Online Salary to Hourly Converter

1. Pick the direction — Salary to Hourly or Hourly to Salary.
2. Enter the annual salary or hourly wage.
3. Adjust hours per week and weeks per year if your schedule isn't 40 × 52.
4. Read the equivalent rates — hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and annual.

The US default is 2,080 working hours a year — 40 hours per week × 52 weeks. From that base, hourly pay is annual salary divided by 2,080. The math gets more interesting once you adjust for part-time hours, unpaid leave, or contractor rates that exclude benefits. A salaried engineer earning $120,000 with two weeks unpaid PTO has a different effective hourly rate than a contractor charging $60/hour with no benefits.

Job seekers comparing a salaried offer against a freelance rate use the tool to translate between the two on a like-for-like basis. Part-time workers use the adjustable hours-per-week field to see what an hourly rate works out to over their actual schedule. Either direction works — enter an annual salary to see hourly equivalents, or enter an hourly rate to see the annualised figure.

All figures are gross — before income tax, payroll tax, healthcare and retirement contributions. Contractors typically need a 25–35% premium on hourly rate to cover self-employment tax, healthcare and lost paid leave.