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Convert pay between hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, monthly and annual using the FLSA conversion, and see what an hour actually worked is worth.

FinancialWorks without JavaScriptReviewed 2026-08-12

Inputs

Your numbers

Gross pay, before tax and deductions.

Working schedule

All hours are treated as straight time; overtime premiums are not applied.

Used to work out how long a day is, and so what one day off is worth.

Days not worked

Defaults to the 11 legal public holidays in 5 U.S.C. § 6103(a).

Days off you take. Set both to 0 to compare pay without any adjustment.

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Result

Enter your values and press Calculate to see the result here.

Formula verified against 29 CFR § 778.113 — Salaried employees (general) from Office of the Federal Register (eCFR), U.S. Government. Last checked 2026-08-12.

Built and maintained by Eddy Bo, founder of CalcVerdict.

How does this calculator work?

Every pay-period conversion runs through one intermediate number: the annual gross. Enter an amount in any period, the calculator converts it up to a year, then divides that exact annual figure back down into all eight periods and rounds each result to the cent exactly once. Nothing is derived from an already-rounded figure, which matters more than it sounds — an hourly rate rounded to the cent and multiplied back by 2,080 hours can be off by up to $10.40 a year, and chaining several such steps compounds the error. The calendar factors are not a house convention. 29 CFR 778.113(b), the Fair Labor Standards Act regulation on salaried employees, translates a monthly salary to a weekly wage by multiplying by 12 and dividing by 52, and a semimonthly salary by multiplying by 24 and dividing by 52. So a year holds exactly 52 weeks here — not 52.1775, the astronomically correct figure — along with 26 biweekly periods, 24 semimonthly periods, 12 months and 4 quarters. That is why a month is one twelfth of a year rather than four weeks, and why biweekly pay is never simply half of monthly pay: 26 paychecks a year do not line up with 12 months, so two months out of every year contain three biweekly checks. Hours and days are treated differently on purpose, because there is no calendar answer to how many working hours a year holds — it depends on your schedule. From hours per week and days per week (defaults 40 and 5) the calculator derives a day length, then builds two counts of the year. The scheduled year is every working day on the payroll calendar: 5 days times 52 weeks is 260 days, or 2,080 hours, the familiar divisor behind salary ÷ 2080. The adjusted year subtracts your holidays and vacation days — defaulting to the 11 federal holidays named in 5 U.S.C. 6103(a) plus 15 vacation days — and 29 CFR 778.109 backs this by defining the regular hourly rate against hours actually worked, with 29 CFR 778.218 noting that pay for idle time such as holidays and vacation is not compensation for hours of employment. The non-obvious result is that the two columns behave in opposite directions depending on what you entered, and this is where most conversion tools quietly mislead. If you entered an hourly or daily rate, you are paid for time worked, so taking 26 days off lowers your annual total: the rate stays fixed and the yearly figure falls. If you entered a weekly-or-longer salary, you are paid a fixed sum for a calendar period, so time off changes nothing about the total — instead the divisor shrinks and your true hourly rate rises. A $80,000 salary is $38.46 an hour across 2,080 scheduled hours, but about $42.74 across the 1,872 hours you actually work once 26 days off are removed. Getting that direction backwards is what makes a calculator tell an hourly worker their vacation is free. Everything shown is gross straight-time pay. No tax is withheld, and the FLSA overtime premium of one and one-half times the regular rate above 40 hours in a workweek is not applied. To see what lands in your account, take the annual figure to the income tax calculator, and if you are weighing a raise against a retirement deferral, the 401(k) calculator works from the same annual gross.

What questions do people ask about this calculator?

How do I convert an hourly wage to an annual salary?

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.

Why is a month not four weeks?

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.

What is the difference between the unadjusted and adjusted columns?

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.

Is my paid vacation included in these numbers?

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.

Does this include overtime, tax or deductions?

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.

Is this a gross to net calculator or a take-home pay calculator?

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.

How many working hours are in a year?

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.

Why do biweekly and semimonthly paychecks differ?

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.

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