Hourly rate calculator
Want to know what your salary works out to per hour? Enter your annual income, your weekly hours and your working weeks per year, and this tool gives you the equivalent hourly, weekly and monthly rates. It is useful for comparing a salaried job to a contract role, sanity-checking a freelance rate, or seeing what your time is really worth once holidays are taken out.
How it works
The core formula is:
Hourly rate = annual income / (hours per week × working weeks per year)
The tool first multiplies your weekly hours by your working weeks to get total annual hours, then divides your income by that total. The weekly rate is the income divided by working weeks, and the monthly rate is the income divided by 12. Lowering the working weeks (to allow for unpaid holiday) reduces total hours, which raises the effective hourly rate for the same salary.
Example
For a salary of 52,000 at 40 hours/week over 52 weeks:
- Total hours = 40 × 52 = 2,080
- Hourly rate = 52,000 / 2,080 = 25.00 per hour
- Weekly = 52,000 / 52 = 1,000; Monthly = 52,000 / 12 = 4,333.33
If you instead work only 46 paid weeks (6 weeks off), total hours fall to 1,840 and the effective rate rises to 28.26 per hour.
| Working weeks | Total hours | Hourly rate (on 52,000) |
|---|---|---|
| 52 | 2,080 | 25.00 |
| 48 | 1,920 | 27.08 |
| 46 | 1,840 | 28.26 |
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