Hourly to Salary Calculator

Every job posting shows either an hourly rate or a salary, but your brain thinks in paychecks. The bridge between the two is the standard work year: 40 hours a week × 52 weeks = 2,080 paid hours. Multiply any hourly rate by 2,080 and you get its full-time annual salary. $25 an hour? That's $52,000 a year. $18 an hour is $37,440. The math takes ten seconds once you know the multiplier.

Two wrinkles change the number in real life. First, overtime: under the Fair Labor Standards Act, hourly (non-exempt) employees earn 1.5× their rate past 40 hours in a week — so a steady 10 hours of OT at $25/hour adds $19,500 a year. Some states layer daily overtime on top: California, for instance, pays 1.5× past 8 hours in a single day. Second, unpaid time off: if your job doesn't pay vacation, drop the weeks — 50 paid weeks at $20/hour is $40,000, not $41,600.

The gross-to-net gap is where hourly workers get surprised. A $52,000 salary doesn't put $52,000 in your pocket: federal tax, 6.2% Social Security, 1.45% Medicare, and state income tax come out first. In Texas or Florida you'd keep roughly $44,000 of it; in California, closer to $42,600. That's why this calculator doesn't stop at the annual figure — pick your state below the results and it shows the after-tax number using the same engine as our paycheck calculator.

One more conversion worth knowing: salary to hourly. Divide annual pay by 2,080 — a $62,400 salary works out to exactly $30/hour. If you're comparing a salaried offer against an hourly job, count the hours the salaried role really expects. A $75,000 salary at a 55-hour-a-week startup is effectively $26.22 an hour before taxes — less than the $30/hour job with overtime rights you might be leaving.