Salary Calculator

Salary Calculator converts a rate of pay between every common period. Enter an hourly rate and see the annual equivalent, or enter an annual salary and see what it works out to per hour, which is the comparison that actually matters when weighing up two jobs with different hours.

The conversion uses your own working pattern rather than a generic assumption. Hours per week, days per week and weeks worked per year are all editable, so part-time hours, a four-day week or unpaid leave all produce a correct figure instead of an approximate one.

An overtime section adds extra hours at a multiplier, since overtime is usually where a simple hourly comparison stops being simple. These are gross figures throughout: income tax, national insurance, pension contributions and student loan repayments vary by country, by circumstance and by year, so a single calculator cannot produce a take-home figure that would be true for everyone.

• Converts between hourly, daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly and annual
• Your own hours per week, days per week and weeks per year
• Overtime hours at a chosen multiplier
• Accounts for unpaid weeks off
• Shows the effective hourly rate including overtime
• Works in any currency
• Gross figures, with the reason explained

The salary calculator is used by writers, developers, students, marketers and anyone else who needs the job done once without installing software. Common cases include:

• Comparing a salaried offer with an hourly one
• Working out an annual figure from a day rate
• Pricing freelance work against an employed salary
• Checking what a part-time role pays annually
• Seeing what overtime is actually worth