About HourlySalaries

HourlySalaries is a free wage and salary converter. Type an hourly rate to see the equivalent annual, monthly, biweekly, weekly, and daily pay — or start from a salary and back out the hourly rate. No signups, no paywalls, no data collection. Just the math, with the assumptions stated up front.

A brief history

HourlySalaries started as a small companion tool to a larger family of calculators I've maintained for more than two decades. It exists because the question “what does my hourly rate work out to per year?” (and the reverse) keeps coming up — at offer time, when comparing jobs, when budgeting, and when sanity-checking a freelance bid. A clean, fast page that answers it without ads above the fold turned out to be useful enough that it earned its own domain.

Like the rest of the network, the site is built on a modern static stack (Next.js, App Router, SSG) so pages stay light and work well on mobile. Every page on the site shares the same calculator shell, the same accessibility patterns, and the same design discipline.

How the calculations are verified

The math is straightforward by design. The standard full-time assumption is 2,080 work-hours per year (40 hours/week × 52 weeks). Annual salary = hourly rate × 2,080; hourly rate = annual salary ÷ 2,080. Other periods follow from there: monthly = annual ÷ 12, biweekly = annual ÷ 26, weekly = annual ÷ 52, daily = hourly × 8. Worked examples on each calculator are computed and independently re-verified.

Real-world schedules differ. Part-time hours, paid time off, unpaid leave, overtime, and weeks worked all change the answer. Each calculator that supports it lets you adjust hours/week and weeks/year so the result reflects your actual schedule. If you spot an error in a formula, an example, or a phrasing that buries an assumption, please email me — reader feedback has caught real mistakes on the sister sites and I'd rather fix one than defend it.

A note on appropriate use

HourlySalaries computes gross pay — what you earn before taxes and other deductions. Net (take-home) pay depends on your jurisdiction, filing status, benefits, retirement contributions, and local rules that this site doesn't try to model. This is not tax, investment, or legal advice. For tax planning and net-pay projections, consult a CPA or qualified financial professional.

About the author

Hi, I'm Jimmy Raymond. I built HourlySalaries and the rest of the calculator network that surrounds it. I earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from New Mexico Tech and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. The two degrees are what made these tools possible — engineering gave me the dimensional-analysis foundation, and computer science gave me the tools to turn equations into software a stranger can pick up and use in thirty seconds.

In the years since, my professional work has taken me through safety-critical aerospace and space systems, real-time embedded software, and full-stack web development. I've shipped code to the standards used for aircraft, medical devices, and nuclear systems — contexts where “almost right” isn't right. That same discipline is where the calculators on this site get their design philosophy: the formula has to be correct, the assumptions have to be stated, the units have to work out, and the limits of the tool have to be honest.

I'm based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Contact

Email me at aj@ajdesigner.com for corrections, calculator requests, or general feedback. You can also find me on LinkedIn.

— Jimmy