Salary to Hourly Calculator
Convert annual salary to hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, and monthly pay. Returns both the honest 'per hour worked' rate and the salary ÷ 2,080 benchmark — with explicit paid + unpaid time-off accounting.
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$75,000
40 hours / week
3 weeks paid off
None
Per hour you actually work
$38.27/hr
Excludes paid + unpaid time off · 1,960 hrs/yr
Per scheduled hour (incl. PTO)
$36.06/hr
The "salary ÷ 2,080" number. Useful for benchmarking.
Daily
$288.46
5-day workweek
Weekly
$1,442.31
paid weeks only
Biweekly
$2,884.62
standard pay period
Monthly
$6,250.00
salary ÷ 12
🕐 $38.27/hr
$75,000/yr at 40 hrs/week with 3 weeks paid off
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The Salary-to-Hourly Calculator converts an annual salary into hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, and monthly equivalents — with explicit accounting for paid time off and unpaid leave. Returns two hourly numbers: the honest 'per hour actually worked' rate (which accounts for PTO), and the salary-÷-2,080 benchmark that HR uses. They're often different by several dollars an hour.
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How this calculator works
- Enter your gross annual salary.
- Set your scheduled hours per week. 40 is US full-time default.
- Enter weeks of paid time off per year (vacation + paid holidays — average US full-time is 3–5 weeks total).
- Add any unpaid weeks (sabbaticals, unpaid leave). These reduce your annual pay.
- Compare the two hourly rates. Use 'per hour worked' when comparing offers or evaluating side-work; use the 2,080 benchmark when matching salary surveys.
hourly (per hour worked) = salary / [ (52 − unpaid − paid_off) × hours_per_week ]Divides your salary by the hours you actually work, not the hours you're 'scheduled.' This is the honest comparison number — taking 4 weeks of PTO doesn't change your salary, but it does change what each hour of work effectively pays.
- salary
- Annual gross salary
- hours_per_week
- Scheduled work hours (40 for US full-time)
- paid_off
- Weeks of paid time off (vacation + paid holidays)
- unpaid
- Weeks of unpaid time off (sabbaticals, unpaid leave)
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