How do you convert an annual salary to an hourly rate?

Divide the annual salary by the number of hours you actually work in a year. Hours per year equal your hours per week multiplied by the number of paid weeks per year. For example, a 35,000 salary at 37.5 hours over 46 paid weeks is 35,000 divided by 1,725, which is about 20.29 per hour.

How many hours are in a working year?

It depends on your pattern. A common full-time assumption is 37.5 hours per week across 52 weeks, giving 1,950 hours. Subtract unpaid leave to lower that figure. The tool recalculates the hours-per-year total live so you can match your real schedule.

Why does unpaid leave raise my hourly rate?

A salary is paid across the whole year regardless of unpaid time off, but unpaid leave reduces the hours you actually work. Fewer worked hours dividing the same salary means each worked hour is worth more, so your effective hourly rate goes up.

How do I convert an hourly rate back to a salary?

Switch to 'rate to annual salary' mode. The tool multiplies your hourly rate by your hours per week and paid weeks per year. A daily rate is multiplied by worked days per year, a weekly rate by paid weeks, and a monthly rate by twelve.

Is the monthly figure just the salary divided by twelve?

Yes. Monthly pay here is the annual figure divided by twelve calendar months, which is how salaried pay normally lands. Weekly, daily and hourly figures instead divide by the paid weeks, worked days and worked hours you specify, since those depend on your schedule.

Does this account for tax, pension or overtime?

No. It converts gross pay between time periods only. Tax, National Insurance, pension contributions and overtime premiums are not included, so treat the results as gross. Use a dedicated salary-tax calculator for take-home figures.

Salary to Hourly Converter

This salary to hourly converter turns a single pay figure into every time period you might need — hourly, daily, weekly and monthly — and runs in reverse too, scaling any rate up to a full annual salary. It is built for jobseekers comparing a salaried role against contract day-rates, freelancers sanity-checking what to quote, and anyone who wants to know what their headline salary really works out to per hour. Because pay-per-hour depends entirely on how many hours you work, the tool puts your working pattern front and centre: hours per week, days per week, weeks per year and any unpaid leave all feed directly into the maths, so the numbers reflect your situation rather than a generic assumption.

Everything is currency-agnostic. Pick from common currencies or choose a neutral, symbol-free mode if you just want the numbers. No figure ever leaves your device — the calculation is 100% client-side, with your last inputs auto-saved in the browser so they are waiting for you next time.

How it works

The tool first resolves a single annual figure, then derives everything else from it. Worked hours per year are your hours per week multiplied by paid weeks (weeks per year minus unpaid leave). The hourly rate is the annual salary divided by those worked hours; the daily rate divides by worked days; the weekly figure divides by paid weeks; and the monthly figure divides the annual by twelve. In reverse mode, a rate is multiplied back up by the matching factor to recover the annual salary. A results panel, a comparison chart and a line-by-line working table show exactly which division produced each number, so nothing is a black box.

Hourly = Annual ÷ (hours per week × paid weeks per year)

Worked example

Take a 35,000 salary, 37.5 hours a week, a standard 52-week year, and 6 weeks of unpaid leave. That leaves 46 paid weeks, so worked hours per year are 37.5 × 46 = 1,725 hours. The hourly rate is 35,000 ÷ 1,725 = about 20.29. The daily rate (5 days × 46 weeks = 230 worked days) is 35,000 ÷ 230 = about 152.17. Weekly pay is 35,000 ÷ 46 = about 760.87, and monthly pay is simply 35,000 ÷ 12 = about 2,916.67. Remove the unpaid leave and the hourly rate drops to roughly 17.95, because you are now spreading the same salary across 1,950 hours instead of 1,725 — a clear illustration of why hours worked matter as much as the headline number.

Annual	Hours/week	Paid weeks	Hourly
35,000	37.5	52	about 17.95
35,000	37.5	46	about 20.29
50,000	40	48	about 26.04
28,000	30	52	about 17.95

Every figure here is computed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored remotely or shared — change any input and the full breakdown updates instantly.