Salary Calculator
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A salary calculator that goes hourly to annual and back — the same pay written every way, before tax.
- Type one figure you already know — an hourly rate, or a yearly salary
- Say which period it is, and check the hours and days match your own
- Read the same pay as an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly figure
Yearly
Gross pay, before tax and any deductions. This does not calculate take-home pay — that depends on the rules where you live.
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About this tool
Almost every pay question is really a units question. You are offered £22 an hour and you are on £41,000 — which is more? A job advert says €4,200 a month and you think in yearly figures. You are moving from five days to four and want to know what that does to the number at the bottom of the payslip. This is the hourly rate calculator and the annual salary calculator in one page, because they are the same arithmetic read in opposite directions. Put in one figure and say what period it is, and it shows the same pay as an hourly rate, a daily rate, a weekly, monthly and yearly one. Going hourly to annual salary needs one thing this page makes visible: change the hours or days you actually work and every figure moves with them, because an hourly rate only becomes an annual salary through somebody's working pattern and there is no universal one. What it does not do, said here rather than discovered later: this is gross pay. It does not calculate take-home pay, because take-home depends on the tax rules of one country in one year, and a page that pretends otherwise is quietly wrong for everybody it was not written for. Nothing on this page changes when a budget does, which is exactly why the numbers can be trusted for what they are. The working pattern is visible and editable for the same reason. Thirty-seven and a half hours is standard in much of Europe and forty in the United States; some contracts pay 52 weeks and some count the odd days. Those are assumptions, so they are on the screen where you can check them against your own contract rather than buried in the arithmetic.
Frequently asked questions
Does this show my take-home pay after tax?
No, and that is deliberate. Take-home pay depends on the income tax, social contributions, pension and student loan rules of one country in one tax year, and a calculator that promises a net figure is really a tax calculator for somewhere specific — wrong for everybody else, and wrong for everybody once the rules change. Every figure here is gross: what you are paid before anything is taken off.
How do I go from hourly to salary?
Hours a week multiplied by weeks a year, then by the rate. At 37.5 hours and 52 weeks, £22 an hour is £42,900 a year. That is why the hours and weeks are editable rather than fixed: change them to 40 and 52 and the same rate becomes £45,760. Neither is more correct — they are different contracts, which is the part a pay calculator with fixed assumptions hides from you.
Why is the monthly figure not four weeks of pay?
Because a month is not four weeks. Monthly pay here is the yearly figure divided by twelve, which is what actually lands in the account. Working from weeks instead gives about 4.33 weeks a month, and for anybody paid monthly that produces a number a few pounds out for no visible reason.
How many hours a week should I put in?
Whatever your contract says, if it says anything. 37.5 is the common full-time figure in the UK and much of Europe, 40 in the United States and for many hourly roles. If you are salaried and your hours vary, the number you put in decides what the hourly figure means — it is answering "what am I effectively paid per hour", so use the hours you actually work if that is the question.
Can I work out part-time pay with it?
Yes — change the hours a week. Going from 37.5 to 30 hours on the same rate shows you the pro-rata salary directly, which is usually the thing being negotiated. A compressed week is the same figures with the days changed instead: same pay, same hours, fewer and longer days.
Does it handle overtime?
It gives you the plain hourly rate, which is what an overtime multiplier is applied to — time and a half on £22 is £33. It does not add overtime into the annual figure, because how much you will do is a guess and which multiplier applies is a contract question, and folding either into a salary figure would make it look more precise while being less true.
Which currency is it in?
Whichever one you are thinking in. The arithmetic is identical for pounds, euros, dollars and kroner — no rate is converted and no currency is assumed, so the figures come out in whatever went in.
Is anything I type sent anywhere?
No. The calculation runs in your browser and nothing is stored or transmitted. What you are paid is nobody else's business, including ours.
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