Job offers rarely arrive in the same units. One says $25 an hour, another says $52,000 a year, a third says $2,000 every two weeks. Convert any of them to a common period and the comparison stops being a guess.
Converts gross pay only. No tax is applied.
| Figure | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Standard full-time year | 2,080 hours (40 hrs x 52 wks) | DOL convention |
| Federal minimum wage | $7.25/hr | FLSA, U.S. DOL |
| Biweekly pay periods/yr | 26 | Calendar |
| Semi-monthly pay periods/yr | 24 | Calendar |
Multiply hourly rate by hours per week, then by weeks per year, and you have annual gross pay. Reverse any of those three and you get back to where you started: divide annual pay by 2,080 and you have the hourly rate for a standard full-time schedule. The tool above runs this in both directions from whichever field you fill in first.
A $25 hourly wage at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks comes to $52,000 a year. Divide that by 12 for $4,333 a month, by 26 for $2,000 biweekly, or by 52 for $1,000 a week. Change the hours field to 25 instead of 40 and the annual figure drops to $32,500, since $25 times 25 times 52 is a different number entirely, even though the hourly rate never moved.
The 2,080 figure only holds at 40 hours a week with no unpaid time off. Two situations move it. Part-time schedules scale down directly: fewer hours per week means fewer hours per year, dollar for dollar. Unpaid weeks work the other way. A contract that runs 50 paid weeks instead of 52 lowers the annual total even at the same hourly rate and the same weekly hours, because the weeks field is doing real work in that formula, not just padding it.
Biweekly pay is every two weeks, 26 checks a year. Semi-monthly is twice a month on fixed dates, 24 checks a year. A $52,000 salary split biweekly gives 26 checks of $2,000. The same salary split semi-monthly gives 24 checks of about $2,167. Same annual total, different check size, and two months a year land a third biweekly paycheck that some people budget as a bonus month. This converter's biweekly output assumes 26 periods; divide the annual result by 24 yourself for a semi-monthly figure.
An hourly contract and a salaried role are hard to size up side by side until both are expressed in the same unit, annual works best for most comparisons. Two things this converter cannot see: benefits (health coverage, retirement match, paid leave) that change an offer's real value regardless of the pay period, and taxes, since every figure here is gross. For the after-tax picture, run the annual result through the take-home pay calculator.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Wages.
Convert the day rate to an hourly figure by dividing it by your typical hours in a workday, enter that as the hourly amount, and set hours and weeks per year to match the contract. The tool then gives you an annual figure to compare directly against a salaried offer.
The biweekly output here assumes 26 pay periods a year. Semi-monthly is 24 periods. To get a semi-monthly figure, take the annual result this tool shows and divide it by 24 yourself.
Recruiters sometimes round to a standard 2,080 hour year regardless of your actual schedule, or quote a number that already assumes unpaid time off. Enter your real hours per week and weeks per year here rather than the default 40 and 52 to see the difference.
Set hours per week to 40 (4 times 10) even though your schedule is compressed into fewer days. The calculator works from total weekly hours, not the number of days you work them across.
No. This converter assumes a flat rate across all entered hours and does not add an overtime premium. If your hourly role pays time and a half past 40 hours, use the overtime calculator to see the extra pay before converting the total to an annual figure.