An independent salary & hourly reference, reviewed by a working compensation analyst.

Why this site exists

The conversion between salary and hourly is simple in theory and routinely done wrong in practice. Mistakes come from three places: assuming the wrong hours-per-week (40 vs 37.5 vs 35 in different markets), assuming the wrong weeks-per-year (52 with paid leave vs 48 without), and confusing gross with take-home. The calculator on this site addresses all three explicitly: every assumption is a labeled input, the bidirectional layout makes the equivalence obvious, and the take-home preview reports the after-tax figure separately.

Editorial principles

• Bidirectional input. Either the salary or the hourly side can be the input; the other updates automatically. This is how compensation discussions actually work.
• Explicit assumptions. Hours per week, weeks per year, and effective tax rate are user-editable. No defaults are baked in.
• Named accountability. Priya Iyer, SHRM-CP, GRP, is the responsible reviewer. Her SHRM membership is verifiable through the SHRM public directory.
• No commercial relationships. The site does not earn referral fees from any job board, recruitment platform, or HR services provider.
• Privacy by architecture. Salary, hourly, and tax-rate inputs stay in your browser.

Verification methodology

1. Math. Verified by inspection. The calculator implements salary = hourly × hours_per_week × weeks_per_year and the symmetric inverse, with no algebraic transformations.
2. Round-trip stability. Editing salary, then editing hourly back to the implied figure, reproduces the original within 0.5% rounding tolerance.
3. Default sourcing. 40 hours/week and 52 weeks/year defaults from US BLS standardized reporting conventions. UK ONS uses 37.5 hours/week as the default for the equivalent calculation; both are valid and the calculator allows either.
4. Currency rendering. Eight supported currencies via Intl.NumberFormat('en-US').

The team

jifinance.xyz operates as a one-person editorial project alongside Priya's compensation advisory practice. Priya reviews every release of the calculator and every page of reference content before publication. She holds final editorial authority and is the named accountable person for every figure on the site.

A part-time research associate based in Mumbai maintains the cross-jurisdiction tax-rate references on the contractor-rates and cost-of-living pages. The associate is named in the public changelog only when their input has produced a substantive change.

What this site is not

• Not regulated tax advice. The take-home preview applies a flat user-entered rate. Actual tax depends on jurisdiction-specific brackets, deductions, credits, and filing status. Use a regulated tax preparer or jurisdiction-specific tax calculator for filing.
• Not a salary benchmarking service. We don't aggregate salary data or publish ranges. For benchmarking, use Glassdoor, levels.fyi, Robert Half, or formal market-data services like Mercer or Aon.
• Not a payroll calculator. Net pay calculations involve specific deductions (pension, healthcare, garnishments) that this calculator does not model.
• Not for tax-resident-status decisions. The cross-border calculations on the resource pages are illustrative; real cross-border tax-residence decisions require professional advice.

Get in touch

Calculation queries, content corrections, accessibility issues, and partnership enquiries are all handled through the contact page. We commit to acknowledging every well-formed message within 24 business hours.