Salary Calculator

Multiply the hourly rate by the hours you work in a week, then by 52. At 40 hours a week that is 2,080 hours a year, so $25 an hour is $52,000 — and the shortcut most people use, doubling the hourly rate and adding three zeros, gives $50,000 and is $2,000 light. The 52-week year is not a convention we picked: 29 CFR § 778.113(b) converts a monthly salary to a weekly one by multiplying by 12 and dividing by 52, which fixes the year at exactly 52 weeks for this purpose.

Because four weeks is 28 days and the average month is about 30.4. Thirteen four-week blocks fit in a 52-week year, not twelve, so treating a month as four weekly paychecks understates monthly pay by 7.7% and overstates the annual figure by 8.3% if you run it the other way. The regulation is explicit: a monthly salary becomes a weekly one by multiplying by 12 and dividing by 52. This calculator divides the annual figure by 12 for a month and by 26 for a biweekly paycheck, which is why the biweekly and semimonthly columns differ — there are 26 of one and 24 of the other.

Unadjusted assumes every working day in the year is paid. Adjusted removes the holidays and vacation days you entered, leaving the time you are actually at work. Which column you want depends on how you are paid. If you are salaried, your annual pay is the same in both, but the adjusted hourly figure is higher — $75,000 is $36.06 an hour across 2,080 scheduled hours and $40.06 across the 1,872 you actually work. If you are paid by the hour, the rate is the same in both columns and it is the annual total that falls, because unpaid days off are days you are not paid for.

If your time off is paid, leave the holiday and vacation fields at zero and read the unadjusted column — paid leave is already inside your salary. Fill those fields in when the days are unpaid, or when you want to know what your time at work is really worth per hour. Be clear about what that adjusted figure is and is not. It is a personal "what is an hour of my time worth" number, not your FLSA regular rate. For a salaried employee the statutory rate is set by 29 CFR § 778.113(a) — the salary divided by the hours it is intended to compensate — so on $75,000 the regular rate is $36.06, and the $40.06 in the adjusted column is a different measure answering a different question.

No to all three, deliberately. Every hour you enter is treated as straight time, so a 50-hour week is priced at 50 times the rate. Under 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1) a non-exempt employee must be paid one and one-half times the regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek, which would make the real figure higher. Every number here is gross: no federal or state income tax, no Social Security or Medicare, no retirement contributions, no insurance premiums.

No — it is deliberately a gross-pay paycheck calculator, converting one gross figure between hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, monthly and annual. It is not a salary-after-tax calculator: withholding for federal and state income tax, Social Security, Medicare and any retirement or insurance deductions is never subtracted here. For your actual take-home pay, run the annual figure this page gives you through the income tax calculator, which is where the withholding math lives.

2,080 for a standard 40-hour, five-day schedule — 40 × 52. That is the number behind almost every salary-to-hourly conversion you will see. Subtract the days you do not work and the figure that matters for your real hourly rate is smaller: 11 public holidays and 15 vacation days is 26 days, or 208 hours, leaving 1,872 hours actually worked. On a part-time schedule the day itself changes too — 30 hours over four days is a 7.5-hour day, so each day off removes 7.5 hours and not 8.

Biweekly means every two weeks, which is 26 paychecks a year. Semimonthly means twice a month — typically the 15th and the last day — which is 24. The same salary therefore arrives in 26 smaller amounts or 24 larger ones. On $75,000 that is $2,884.62 biweekly against $3,125.00 semimonthly. Biweekly pay also produces two months a year with three paychecks instead of two, which is why a biweekly budget built on "two paychecks a month" quietly runs a surplus twice a year.