Hourly Wage Calculator
Convert an hourly rate into weekly, biweekly, monthly and annual pay, or work backwards from a salary.
Annual pay
41,600
Monthly pay
3,466.67
Biweekly pay
1,600
Weekly pay
800
Hourly Wage Calculator
Turns an hourly rate into weekly, biweekly, monthly and annual pay.
Annual = hourly × hours per week × 52; monthly = annual ÷ 12; biweekly = weekly × 2. Tick the overtime box to pay 1.5× for hours past 40 in a workweek. All figures are gross, before tax and withholding.
- A flat weekly schedule scales straight through: weekly pay, then doubled for a biweekly cheque, then multiplied by 52 for the year.E.g. $20 an hour × 40 hours = $800 a week, $1,600 biweekly, $41,600 a year, $3,466.67 a month.
- With overtime on, only the hours past 40 are paid at one and a half times the base rate.E.g. 50 hours at $20: 40 × 20 = 800, plus 10 × 30 = 300, giving $1,100 a week and $57,200 a year.
- Reverse mode divides an annual salary by 52 weeks and then by your weekly hours.E.g. $60,000 ÷ 52 ÷ 40 ≈ $28.85 an hour.
- Monthly pay is the annual figure divided by 12, not weekly pay times four. A month averages about 4.33 weeks, not 4.E.g. $800 a week is $3,466.67 a month, not $3,200 — the shortcut understates the year by more than $3,000.
- The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and has not moved since 24 July 2009. Where a state or city sets a higher rate, the higher rate governs.E.g. $7.25 for 40 hours a week is $290 a week and $15,080 a year, before any higher state minimum is applied.
- Federal overtime is measured by the workweek, not by the day.E.g. four 10-hour days is 40 hours, so no federal overtime is owed — though California, Alaska, Nevada and Colorado add daily overtime rules of their own.
- FLSA overtime
- 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1) requires at least one and one-half times the regular rate for hours worked over forty in a workweek. The threshold is weekly under federal law; some states add a daily threshold on top.
- Exempt vs non-exempt
- Exempt employees — typically salaried executive, administrative or professional staff who meet both a duties test and a salary threshold — are outside the overtime rule entirely. This calculator assumes a non-exempt hourly employee.
- Federal minimum wage
- $7.25 an hour under 29 U.S.C. § 206(a)(1)(C), in force since 24 July 2009. A youth rate of $4.25 applies to employees under 20 during their first 90 consecutive calendar days with an employer.
- Biweekly vs semimonthly
- Biweekly means every two weeks, so 26 paycheques a year. Semimonthly means twice a month, so 24. The same annual salary produces different cheque amounts under each schedule.
- Gross pay
- Pay before income tax withholding, Social Security and Medicare contributions, and benefit deductions come out. Every figure this calculator returns is gross.