The salary calculator that translates — in both directions.
Most online salary calculators only convert one way. This one is bidirectional: enter a salary and see the hourly equivalent, or enter an hourly rate and see the annual equivalent — with daily, weekly, and monthly breakdown plus a tax-aware take-home preview. Useful for offer comparisons, contractor rate setting, and the recurring question “is my hourly rate competitive at this level?”
Salary & Hourly Converter
Full breakdown
Every figure stays in your browser. Salary, hourly, and tax assumptions are not transmitted to a server. The engine is a single readable JavaScript file.
What this calculator does
The conversion between salary and hourly is straightforward arithmetic, but it's surprisingly often done wrong because the two unit systems make different assumptions about hours-per-week, weeks-per-year (do you count paid leave as worked weeks?), and what “take-home” means after tax. The calculator surfaces all three so you can compare like with like.
The bidirectional input layout matters. A typical use case is the contractor who knows their hourly rate and wants to know the W2-equivalent salary it represents, or the salaried employee evaluating a contract role at $X/hour and wanting to know if it represents a pay cut. Either side can be the input. Edit the salary box and the hourly box updates; edit the hourly box and the salary updates. Both reflect the same hours-per-week assumption.
About the reviewer — Priya R. Iyer, SHRM-CP, GRP
Experience. Priya has spent the last eleven years in compensation and benefits roles for global IT services firms with workforces split between India, the US, and the UK. Her current independent practice serves Indian IT services contractors negotiating cross-border rates and US-based hiring managers benchmarking offshore compensation against local equivalents. The salary–hourly conversion framework on this site is the same one she uses to translate between Indian fixed-salary structures, US W2 ranges, and US 1099 contractor rates — the three frames that her client conversations turn on every week.
Expertise. Priya holds an MBA in Human Resources from the Xavier School of Management (XLRI Jamshedpur), the SHRM-CP (Society for Human Resource Management Certified Professional) designation, and the GRP (Global Remuneration Professional) certification administered by WorldatWork. Her specialisations are cross-border compensation benchmarking (with a focus on the India–US–UK–Singapore corridor), contractor-rate uplift methodology, and the operational HR work of converting offer letters between jurisdictions when employees relocate.
Authoritativeness. Priya has presented at the SHRM India Annual Conference on cross-border compensation analytics and contributes commentary to People Matters, The Economic Times careers section, and the WorldatWork journal. She serves on the editorial review panel of an Indian HR analytics newsletter.
Trustworthiness. The calculator's math is trivial — multiplication and division — verified by inspection. The default assumptions (40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year, illustrative tax rates) are conservative defaults based on US BLS and UK ONS published norms; users can override every assumption. Last verified May 2026.
The math
Hours per year = hours per week × weeks per year. Salary = hourly × hours per year. Hourly = salary ÷ hours per year. Daily, weekly, monthly breakdowns follow from the annual figure: monthly = salary / 12; weekly = hourly × hours per week; daily = salary / (working days per year). After-tax variants apply the user-entered effective tax rate as a flat percentage.
Reference: hourly equivalent at common annual salaries
Assuming 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year (2,080 hours/year):
| Annual salary | Hourly | Daily (8h) | Weekly | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $30,000 | $14.42 | $115 | $577 | $2,500 |
| $50,000 | $24.04 | $192 | $962 | $4,167 |
| $75,000 | $36.06 | $288 | $1,442 | $6,250 |
| $100,000 | $48.08 | $385 | $1,923 | $8,333 |
| $150,000 | $72.12 | $577 | $2,885 | $12,500 |
| $200,000 | $96.15 | $769 | $3,846 | $16,667 |
| $300,000 | $144.23 | $1,154 | $5,769 | $25,000 |
| $500,000 | $240.38 | $1,923 | $9,615 | $41,667 |
Verification methodology
- Math. Verified by inspection. The calculator implements
hourly = salary / (hours_per_week × weeks_per_year)and the symmetric inverse. - Default assumptions. 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year defaults are sourced from US BLS and UK ONS standardised reporting conventions. Tax-rate defaults are illustrative only.
- Round-trip stability. Editing the salary box, then editing the hourly box back to the same salary, must reproduce the original to within 0.5% (rounding-tolerant).
- Currency formatting. Eight supported currencies render via
Intl.NumberFormat.
Frequently asked questions
How do I convert a contractor 1099 rate to a salary equivalent?
A contractor pays self-employment tax (~7.65 % above what an employee pays in FICA) and forfeits employer-paid benefits (typically 20–30 % of salary). A rough rule: 1099 rate is ~30 % higher than the equivalent W2 rate to offset these costs. So a $100/hour 1099 rate is roughly equivalent to a $77/hour W2 rate, which at 2,080 hours is ~$160k W2 vs. $208k 1099 gross. The contractor rates page walks through the full math.
Should I use 52 or 50 weeks?
For salaried employees with paid leave, 52 weeks is correct (the leave is paid, the salary is annualised over a full year). For self-employed or unpaid-leave roles, use the actual weeks worked — typically 48–50 after holidays and personal time off.
What's a realistic effective tax rate?
Depends entirely on country and income level. Rough guidance for full-time professional incomes: US 22–32 %, UK 28–38 %, India 15–30 %, Australia 30–40 %. The calculator's default (30 %) is a middle-of-road approximation.