How to use the salary calculator
- Type your Pay as a number, for example 25 or 4,500.
- Choose Pay is per: Hour, Day, Week, 2 weeks, Month or Year.
- Check your work pattern: Hours per week (40 by default), Days per week (5) and Paid weeks per year (52).
- Read your pay in every period. The hourly, daily, weekly, every-2-weeks, monthly and yearly amounts appear at once, with the one you entered highlighted.
Features
- Six pay periods converted both ways: hourly, daily, weekly, every two weeks, monthly and yearly.
- Your own work pattern, including part-time hours, a four-day week or unpaid weeks off.
- Paid hours per year and hours per day shown under the results, so you can check the assumptions.
- Instant results as you type, with a clear message if the work pattern doesn't add up, such as more than 24 hours in a day.
- Honest about tax: every figure is gross, and the page says so rather than guessing at deductions.
How the conversion works
Everything is converted through an hourly rate. A week is your hours per week, a day is your weekly hours divided by your days per week, and two weeks is simply twice a week. A year is your weekly hours multiplied by your paid weeks, and a month is one twelfth of that.
For example, a monthly salary of 3,500 with a standard 40-hour week and 52 paid weeks gives 42,000 a year. That is 2,080 paid hours, so the hourly rate is about 20.19. A week comes to about 807.69, a day to about 161.54, and two weeks to about 1,615.38.
Paid leave, part-time work and contracts
The paid weeks setting is the one people most often get wrong. If you are on a salary with paid holidays, you are paid for 52 weeks even though you work fewer, so leave it at 52. Comparing that job with a contract that pays by the hour? Set the contract's weeks to the weeks you would actually bill. A 40 an hour contract for 46 weeks a year comes to 73,600, while the same rate over 52 weeks would suggest 83,200.
Part-time is just as easy: set Hours per week to your hours, for example 24, and Days per week to 3. The hourly rate stays the same while weekly, monthly and yearly pay change to match.
Why use Fileora's salary calculator
Job adverts quote pay in all sorts of ways, hourly, monthly or yearly, and comparing them in your head is slow and error-prone. This calculator puts every period side by side, using your real hours rather than a fixed assumption.
It's free, needs no sign-up and runs entirely in your browser, so your pay details stay private.
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