Turn an hourly rate
into a clearer picture.
Compare gross pay using your paid hours and weeks. See the difference between a worked week and an average over the whole year.
Your paid schedule
Change the hours and paid weeks to match your scenario. Overtime is an optional planning assumption; this tool does not determine eligibility or required pay.
Inputs stay in this browser tab. Taxes, deductions, unpaid breaks, bonus, tips and equity are excluded.
What that schedule adds up to.
Enter an hourly rate to begin.
Annual and periodic gross pay update as you change the paid schedule.
How hourly pay becomes annual gross pay
Multiply the hourly rate by regular paid hours per week, then multiply by paid weeks per year. If you enter additional overtime hours, their pay uses your entered multiplier and is added to each paid week. For an illustrative $25 hourly rate, 30 paid hours each week and 48 paid weeks produce $36,000 of annual gross pay before any deductions.
Divide annual gross pay by 12 for an average calendar month, 26 for a biweekly average, or 24 for a semimonthly average. A worker with unpaid weeks can earn a different amount during each worked week than the average across all 52 calendar weeks. Biweekly and semimonthly schedules have different numbers of pay periods.
A published occupation wage is a market statistic with its own definition. This calculator models the schedule you enter and cannot change that statistic’s native pay period or determine take-home pay. Read the guide to hourly and annual pay.