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Salary to hourly calculator

Turn a yearly, monthly or weekly salary into an hourly rate for the hours you really work, and see every pay period.

Salary
$52,000 a year
Hours a week
40
Weeks a year
52

Your salary

Example
$25.00 an hour$1,000.00 a week40:00 h a weekFull result

Like 52,000 or 52k

h

40 is full time. 37:30 or 37.5 both work.

weeks

Use 52 if paid vacation counts as weeks worked.

As an hourly rate

An hour

$25.00

for 40:00 hours a week (40.00 h) × 52 weeks

$25.00 an hour.

RulePayroll convention — 52 weeks a year, 2,080 hours at 40 a week; monthly = yearly ÷ 12, weekly from monthly = × 12 ÷ 52Sources checked How the math works ↓

Every pay period

Your salary in every pay period
PerPay
A year52 weeks of work$52,000.00
A montha year ÷ 12$4,333.33
Twice a montha year ÷ 24$2,166.67
Every two weeksa year ÷ 26$2,000.00
A weeka year ÷ 52$1,000.00
A daya week ÷ 5 working days$200.00
An houra year ÷ 2,080 hours worked$25.00

Gross pay before taxes and deductions. Each amount is rounded to the cent from the yearly figure.

The year, to scale

  1. A year of pay$52,000.00

    • $52,000.002,080 hours of work

  2. One month$4,333.33

    • $4,333.33a twelfth of the year

  3. Two weeks$2,000.00

    • $2,000.00a 26th of the year
All three bars share one dollar scale, so a month is a twelfth of the year’s length and two weeks a 26th.

Why 2,080 hours?

Payroll treats a full-time year as 40 hours × 52 weeks = 2,080 hours. A real calendar year has fewer working days once federal holidays fall on weekdays:

  • 2026: 261 weekdays − 11 federal holidays = 250 days = 2,000 hours at 8 a day.
  • 2027: 261 weekdays − 12 federal holidays = 249 days = 1,992 hours at 8 a day.

Paid holidays still count as paid hours, so a salary is usually figured on 2,080. See every year in work hours in a year. Some years have 27 bi-weekly paydays instead of 26 — then each paycheck of a fixed salary is a little smaller.

Going the other way? The hourly to salary calculator can add regular overtime hours too.

Calculated with Punch Clock Math · rules checked October 22, 2026 · an estimate, not legal or tax advice · punchclockmath.com

How the math works

Money is kept in whole cents; each period is rounded once from the yearly amount.

  1. Hourly to yearlyRate × hours a week (+ overtime hours × 1.5 × rate) × paid weeks. $19.00 × 40 × 52 = $39,520.00; $25.00 with 5 overtime hours a week = $61,750.00.29 CFR 778.113 · Fact Sheet: Computing Hourly Rates of Pay Using the 2,087-Hour Divisor
  2. Yearly to every periodMonth = year ÷ 12 ($3,293.33), twice a month ÷ 24, every two weeks ÷ 26 ($1,520.00), week ÷ 52, day = week ÷ 5.29 CFR 778.113 · Fact Sheet: Computing Hourly Rates of Pay Using the 2,087-Hour Divisor
  3. Salary to hourlyYearly salary ÷ (hours a week × weeks worked): $52,000 ÷ 2,080 = $25.00. A monthly salary is × 12 ÷ 52 a week: $4,500 a month = $1,038.46 a week.29 CFR 778.113
  4. Real working daysWeekdays in the calendar year minus the observed federal holidays that fall on them, × 8 hours.Some years have 27 bi-weekly or 53 weekly paydays.Fact Sheet: Computing Hourly Rates of Pay Using the 2,087-Hour Divisor · 5 U.S.C. 6103 - Holidays (U.S. Code, 2024 ed.) · Federal Holidays · K.8 — Holidays Observed by the Federal Reserve System 2026–2030 (page dated Invalid Date)

What this doesn’t cover

  • Taxes and deductions: every figure is gross pay; withholding, benefits and retirement contributions are not calculated.
  • Overtime rules: a salary for a non-exempt employee still needs overtime over 40 hours; the regular rate calculator works it out.
  • Exempt status: whether a salaried job is exempt from overtime depends on the duties and the salary level; this tool doesn’t decide it.
  • Bonuses, tips and commissions: not included unless you fold them into the rate or salary yourself.

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Page sources

Every rule above comes from these pages, read on the dates shown.

  1. 29 CFR 778.113eCFR (Office of the Federal Register / GPO) · read
  2. Fact Sheet: Computing Hourly Rates of Pay Using the 2,087-Hour DivisorU.S. Office of Personnel Management · read
  3. 5 U.S.C. 6103 - Holidays (U.S. Code, 2024 ed.)U.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo) · read
  4. Federal HolidaysU.S. Office of Personnel Management · read
  5. K.8 — Holidays Observed by the Federal Reserve System 2026–2030Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System · read