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Result

28.85

Hourly rate

Daily pay
230.77
Weekly pay
1,153.85
Biweekly pay
2,307.69
Monthly pay
5,000.00
Hours per year
2,080.00 hours
Days per year
260.00 days

A salary is a yearly figure and an hourly rate is what that same money comes to for one hour of work, and the step between them is a single division — but only after somebody has decided how many hours a year holds. That decision is not this page's to make. Enter the annual salary, the hours worked per week, the days worked per week and the number of weeks the year is counted as, and the panel prints the hourly rate, the daily rate, and the weekly, biweekly and monthly equivalents of the same salary. The last two rows print the assumption itself — the hours and the days that the year is being counted as — because they are the denominators the rates are divided by, and a rate whose denominator is invisible cannot be checked by hand. The default is 60,000 over 40 hours a week for 52 weeks: 2,080 hours in the year, so 28.85 an hour. Count the year as 52.14 weeks instead, which is 365 days divided by seven, and the same salary gives 28.77, because the same money is now spread over 2,085.6 hours. The two figures are eight cents apart and neither is wrong; they answer slightly different questions, and that gap is the entire reason the weeks field exists. Monthly pay is the one row that ignores all of it: it is the annual salary divided by twelve, always, so 60,000 prints 5,000 a month whatever the hours say. If what you already hold is the hourly wage and you want the salary that goes with it, the conversion the other way round is a separate page.

One 60,000 salary, three ways of counting the year

BasisHours in the yearWhat the basis is
52 weeks2080The everyday convention: forty hours a week for fifty-two weeks is exactly 2,080 hours in the year. It is the figure most conversion tables, most payroll systems and most employment contracts assume, and it is the one the panel uses by default. It is also slightly less than a year: fifty-two weeks is 364 days, so this basis quietly ignores the extra day or two that a calendar year contains.
52.14 weeks2085.6The calendar: 365 days divided by seven is 52.14 weeks, so forty hours a week gives 2,085.6 hours in the year — 5.6 hours more than the 52-week convention, and therefore a slightly lower rate for the same salary. A leap year would be 52.29 weeks. Use this basis when you want the year to mean the actual year rather than a rounded convention.
2,087 hours2087A statutory divisor rather than an arithmetic one: the United States federal government computes hourly rates for most civilian employees by dividing the annual rate of basic pay by 2,087 hours, as required by 5 U.S.C. 5504(b). It is neither 40 × 52 nor 40 × 52.14 — it is the average length of a work year over a long cycle of leap years, written into law so that agencies do not have to agree on a convention each year.

The axis is the number of weeks the year is counted as, because that is the assumption the hourly rate is divided by and the only one of the four fields that has no obvious right answer. The hours per week are held at forty throughout — the line above which extra hours must be paid at a premium in the United States, and the default of the calculator — so the second column is that forty multiplied by each basis, except in the last row, where the divisor is written into law instead. Reproduce any row by entering 60,000 and setting the weeks field to the value named in its first cell; the hourly rate that falls out is on the panel, not in this table. Read the three rows for the size of the disagreement rather than for a winner: two conventions and one statute span 2,080 to 2,087 hours, which is seven hours in the year and about ten cents an hour on this salary. On one employee that is loose change; on a payroll of ten thousand it is the kind of difference that has to be written down somewhere, and the last row is how one large employer wrote it down.

Formula

Hourly rate = annual salary ÷ (hours per week × weeks per year)

annualSalary
The yearly figure the job is quoted at, before anything is deducted from it. It is the numerator of every rate on the panel, so a salary that is already net of tax, or that excludes a bonus paid separately, will produce rates that are not comparable with anyone else's. If the contract quotes a monthly or weekly figure, multiply it up first: twelve months or fifty-two weeks of that figure is what this field wants.
hoursPerWeek
The hours in a working week, taken from the contract rather than from the clock. A full week is usually 40 hours, but 35, 37.5 and 48 are all ordinary in different places and trades, and the hourly rate moves in inverse proportion to this number: cut the week from 40 hours to 35 and the same salary is worth more per hour because it is being earned in fewer of them. Unpaid overtime and on-call time do not belong here, because neither of them is paid at the rate the panel is about to print.
daysPerWeek
How many days the working week is spread over. It never touches the hourly rate, and it is here because the daily rate needs a denominator of its own: five days a week over 52 weeks is 260 working days in the year, and the same salary divided by 260 is the daily figure. A four-day week, or a six-day one, changes the daily rate and leaves the hourly rate alone, which is worth seeing on the same panel.
weeksPerYear
How many weeks the year is counted as, and the field the whole panel turns on. Leave it at 52 and the year is 2,080 hours; move it to 52.14, which is 365 divided by seven, and the year is 2,085.6 hours; set it to 52.175 with 40 hours a week and the year is the 2,087 hours the United States federal government divides salaries by. None of the three is a fact about your job — each is a convention, and the eight cents an hour between the first two is the price of choosing one convention over another.
annualHours
The hours per week multiplied by the weeks per year: the denominator of the hourly rate, printed so it can be seen. It is not a statutory number in most countries and it is not the hours you will actually work — holidays, sick leave and unpaid time off all reduce the real figure without changing this one — but it is exactly what the salary was divided by, which is what makes the hourly rate checkable. (hours)
workDaysPerYear
The days per week multiplied by the weeks per year: the denominator of the daily rate. Five days a week over 52 weeks gives 260 days, and the same salary spread over 261 days — which is what a year holds once the 104 weekend days are taken out of 365 — would give a slightly smaller daily rate. Countries that publish an official conversion choose one of those two, and the panel prints whichever one you asked for. (days)
hourlyRate
The annual salary divided by the hours in the year: the figure the page exists for. It is rounded to two decimals, and everything else on the panel is counted from the salary rather than from it, so multiplying it back up will usually be a cent or two away from the numbers beside it. That is deliberate — a panel that only reconciled with itself by chaining rounded figures would print a monthly pay that does not match the salary you typed.
dailyRate
The annual salary divided by the working days in the year. It is what a day of absence costs, and it is worth knowing that many jurisdictions define this figure by law rather than by arithmetic: China's national conversion divides the paid days in a month by 21.75, which works out at 261 days a year rather than the 260 a strict five-day week produces.
weeklyPay
The annual salary divided by the weeks in the year. It is the plainest of the equivalents, because it undoes nothing: whatever the hours field says, a week is one fifty-second of the year, so the figure moves only when the salary or the weeks field does.
biweeklyPay
The salary multiplied by two and divided by the weeks in the year, which is one pay packet every two weeks. It is not half the monthly pay and the difference is not a rounding error: a year holds 26.09 two-week periods rather than 24, so the fortnightly figure sits well below half the monthly one.
monthlyPay
The annual salary divided by twelve: the only row on the panel that the hours fields cannot move. It is the figure most contracts quote and the one most people recognise, which is exactly why it is here beside an hourly rate that a different convention would have changed — the two answers are both correct and they belong to different questions.

Use it when a job offer, a contract or a payslip states a yearly figure and the comparison you want to make is against something quoted per hour — a shift rate, a contractor's rate, or the same job in a country where pay is quoted the other way. The comparison is only meaningful once the hours are on the same footing, and that is the thing this page refuses to assume: a salary of 60,000 over a 40-hour week and the same salary over a 37.5-hour week are not the same job, and putting both through here is how the difference becomes a number.

Worked examples

  1. The default: 60,000 over 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year

    1. Hours in the year: 40 × 52 = 2,080
    2. Hourly rate: 60,000 ÷ 2,080 = 28.85
    3. Days in the year: 5 × 52 = 260
    4. Daily rate: 60,000 ÷ 260 = 230.77
    5. Weekly: 60,000 ÷ 52 = 1,153.85; every two weeks: 60,000 × 2 ÷ 52 = 2,307.69; monthly: 60,000 ÷ 12 = 5,000

    Every figure on this panel can be checked with the four lines above, and that is the point of counting each one from the salary instead of chaining them. The price is on the third and fourth lines: 28.85 multiplied by eight hours is 230.80, while the daily rate printed beside it is 230.77. The three cents are not an error to be reported — they are what happens when two independently rounded answers to nearly the same question sit next to each other, and hiding it by chaining the rounded hourly rate would have made the monthly figure print 5,000.67 against a salary of 60,000.

  2. The same salary with the year counted as 52.14 weeks

    1. Hours in the year: 40 × 52.14 = 2,085.6
    2. Hourly rate: 60,000 ÷ 2,085.6 = 28.77
    3. Days in the year: 5 × 52.14 = 260.7
    4. Daily rate: 60,000 ÷ 260.7 = 230.15
    5. Weekly: 60,000 ÷ 52.14 = 1,150.75; monthly: 60,000 ÷ 12 = 5,000

    One changed field, and four of the seven figures moved. The hourly rate fell by eight cents, the daily rate by sixty-two, the weekly figure by three — and the monthly figure did not move at all, because it never looks at the hours. That contrast is the quickest way to see which rows are statements about the year and which one is a statement about the salary alone.

  3. A 37.5-hour week: 45,000 over five days

    1. Hours in the year: 37.5 × 52 = 1,950
    2. Hourly rate: 45,000 ÷ 1,950 = 23.08
    3. Daily rate: 45,000 ÷ 260 = 173.08
    4. Weekly: 45,000 ÷ 52 = 865.38; monthly: 45,000 ÷ 12 = 3,750

    A lower salary on a shorter week can beat a higher one on a full week, and this is the arithmetic that decides it. The daily rate here is built on the same 260 days as the first example — a shorter day does not change how many days the year holds — so the only rows that move are the ones the hours reach.

  4. Fifty paid weeks: two weeks of unpaid leave a year

    1. Hours in the year: 40 × 50 = 2,000
    2. Hourly rate: 52,000 ÷ 2,000 = 26
    3. Days in the year: 5 × 50 = 250
    4. Daily rate: 52,000 ÷ 250 = 208
    5. Every two weeks: 52,000 × 2 ÷ 50 = 2,080

    Fewer weeks in the year means the same salary is spread over fewer hours, so the rate goes up: 26 an hour here against 25 if the year had been counted as 52 weeks — the same total, divided by a smaller number. Read together with the 52.14 example, the two show that the weeks field is not a fudge factor to be nudged until a favourite number appears. It is a statement about how many weeks the salary is actually being paid for.

  5. Reproducing the United States federal divisor: 2,087 hours

    1. Hours in the year: 40 × 52.175 = 2,087
    2. Hourly rate: 60,000 ÷ 2,087 = 28.75
    3. Days in the year: 5 × 52.175 = 260.875
    4. Daily rate: 60,000 ÷ 260.875 = 229.99
    5. Weekly: 60,000 ÷ 52.175 = 1,149.98; monthly: 60,000 ÷ 12 = 5,000

    The 2,087-hour divisor is written into law rather than derived, so the only way to reach it from this panel is to solve for the weeks field: 2,087 divided by 40 is 52.175. The point of doing it is the size of the effect. Between the everyday 52-week convention and the statutory divisor, the same 60,000 moves by ten cents an hour — which is small until it is multiplied by the thousands of hours a large employer is dividing.

Limitations

Every figure on this page is gross. Nothing here subtracts income tax, social insurance, pension contributions or anything else that comes out of a payslip, and the difference between the hourly rate printed here and the amount that arrives in a bank account can be a third of it or more depending on where you are. The page also has no idea what your job is: no country defaults are filled in, no industry rates, no minimum wage comparison, because those are facts about a jurisdiction and a trade rather than about arithmetic, and a wrong default would be worse than an empty field. The hours per week field takes the contract at its word, so unpaid overtime, on-call hours, travel between sites and the time spent answering messages after dinner are all outside it — and each of those lowers the real hourly rate without the panel noticing. Long-service pay, shift premiums, a thirteenth month and a bonus paid separately are equally invisible, and so is anything that varies month to month. On the panel itself there are two things worth expecting rather than reporting. The first is the seam between the hourly and daily rows: each rate is counted from the salary rather than from the one above it, so multiplying the hourly rate by the hours in a day will often be a few cents away from the daily rate printed beside it. The second is the monthly row, which divides by twelve no matter what the weeks field says — a month is not a whole number of weeks and never has been, which is why a year holds 26.09 two-week periods rather than 24 and why the fortnightly figure is not half the monthly one. Finally, the weeks field is the one that decides everything, and it has no correct value: 52 weeks is a convention, 52.14 is the calendar, the 2,087-hour divisor is a statute in one country, and countries that publish an official conversion for daily and hourly pay often use neither. China, for instance, counts 21.75 paid days in a month — 261 days in a year, arrived at by removing only the 104 weekend days from 365 and keeping the statutory holidays paid. Against the 260 days a strict five-day week produces, that is a one-day difference in the denominator and a slightly lower daily rate, and it is exactly the kind of local convention this page leaves to you.

Frequently asked questions

How do I turn an annual salary into an hourly wage?
Divide the salary by the hours in the year, and the hours in the year are the hours worked per week multiplied by the number of weeks the year is counted as. On 40 hours a week and 52 weeks, that denominator is 2,080, so 60,000 comes to 28.85 an hour. Decide the weeks figure before you divide, because the same salary is 28.77 when the year is counted as 52.14 weeks instead.
Should I use 52 weeks or 52.14 weeks?
Neither is more correct than the other, and the panel will take either. A year is 365 days, which is 52.14 weeks, so 52.14 is the calendar; 52 is the convention most employers and most conversion tables use, and it makes the arithmetic exact — 40 hours a week for 52 weeks is a tidy 2,080 hours. On a salary of 60,000 the two are eight cents an hour apart. Use whichever the contract or the payslip you are comparing against uses.
Why is the hourly rate multiplied by eight not equal to the daily rate?
Because each figure on the panel is counted from the salary rather than from the one above it. Every row is rounded to two decimals, and two separately rounded answers to nearly the same question will not agree exactly: 28.85 times 8 is 230.80, while 60,000 divided by 260 days is 230.77. The alternative — building the daily rate on the already rounded hourly rate — would have made a 60,000 salary print a monthly pay of 5,000.67, which looks like a bug and is one of the reasons the panel is built this way round.
What is the 2,087-hour divisor?
It is the number of hours the United States federal government divides an annual rate of basic pay by when it computes an hourly rate, written into law at 5 U.S.C. 5504(b). It is not 40 hours multiplied by any whole number of weeks: it is 2,080 plus a little, because a year is not exactly 52 weeks. To reproduce it here, set the weeks per year to 52.175 with 40 hours a week, and the panel will report 2,087 hours in the year.
Does the monthly figure change if I change the hours per week?
No, and that is deliberate. Monthly pay is the annual salary divided by twelve, always. The hours fields change what the year is worth per hour and per day, but a month is a twelfth of a year whichever way you count it, so 60,000 prints 5,000 a month whether the week is 40 hours or 37.5. The row is on the panel precisely so that the difference between a figure that depends on the hours and one that does not is visible at a glance.
Is this the amount I take home?
It is not. Every figure here is gross — the hourly rate, the daily rate, the weekly and monthly equivalents all describe money before tax, social insurance and pension contributions come out. What actually arrives can be a third less or more depending on the country and the situation, and none of that is modelled here. This page answers what the contract pays for an hour of work, not what the work leaves you with.

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