Hourly to Salary Calculator
To convert an hourly wage to an annual salary, multiply the rate by your hours: annual = hourly × hours per week × weeks per year. At full-time 40 hours over 52 weeks (2,080 hours), $25.00 an hour is $52,000 a year. Watch the pay tower grow as you adjust the rate and schedule.
Annual
$52,000
Monthly
$4,333
Weekly
$1,000
Hourly
$25.00
Quick Conversion
Formula: annual = hourly × hrs/wk × wks/yr
Your Pay Tower
Each block stacks on the one below it. As the hourly rate or hours rise, the annual block at the top grows fastest — the multiplier effect of 2,080 hours.
Common Hourly Rates
One-click presets from the federal minimum to senior consulting rates. Each loads the hourly figure.
Hourly → Annual Table (2,080-hour year)
| Hourly | Annual (40h × 52) | Monthly | Weekly |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10.00 | $20,800 | $1,733 | $400 |
| $12.00 | $24,960 | $2,080 | $480 |
| $15.00 | $31,200 | $2,600 | $600 |
| $18.00 | $37,440 | $3,120 | $720 |
| $20.00 | $41,600 | $3,467 | $800 |
| $22.00 | $45,760 | $3,813 | $880 |
| $25.00 | $52,000 | $4,333 | $1,000 |
| $28.00 | $58,240 | $4,853 | $1,120 |
| $30.00 | $62,400 | $5,200 | $1,200 |
| $35.00 | $72,800 | $6,067 | $1,400 |
| $40.00 | $83,200 | $6,933 | $1,600 |
| $50.00 | $104,000 | $8,667 | $2,000 |
| $65.00 | $135,200 | $11,267 | $2,600 |
| $75.00 | $156,000 | $13,000 | $3,000 |
Need to go the other way? Use the Salary to Hourly Calculator to divide a salary down to a wage.
The Formula
Annual = Hourly × Hours per week × Weeks per yearStandard multiplier = 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours/yearWorked: $25 per hour at 40 hours/week × 52 weeks = $25 × 2,080 = $52,000 a year. Work 48 hours a week instead and it climbs to $25 × 48 × 52 = $62,400 before the FLSA 1.5× overtime premium on the eight hours past 40 — which, if paid, pushes the real total higher still.
Minimum Wage Reference (annualized at 2,080 hrs)
| Benchmark | Hourly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| US federal minimum (since 2009) | $7.25 | $15,080 |
| Common state minimum | $12.00 | $24,960 |
| Fight for $15 target | $15.00 | $31,200 |
| California 2026 minimum | $16.50 | $34,320 |
| Washington 2026 minimum | $16.66 | $34,653 |
Source: US Department of Labor, FLSA minimum wage records.
Saved Conversions
No saved conversions yet. Tap "Save to History" to remember up to six pay-tower configurations.
How to Build the Tower
- Enter your hourly wage — the hourly block at the base of the tower updates instantly.
- Set hours-per-week to your real schedule; 40 is the FLSA full-time default, gig and hospitality work often runs higher.
- Set weeks-per-year; keep 52 for year-round work, lower it for seasonal, contract, or unpaid-leave schedules.
- Watch the daily, weekly, and monthly blocks stack until the annual salary crowns the top of the tower.
- Save the snapshot, then open Salary to Hourly to verify the reverse on a competing salaried offer.
Why This Calculator Exists
In 2026, a warehouse picker offered $24 an hour and a salaried inventory-coordinator role posted at $51,000 needs one number to compare them honestly: the annual equivalent of the wage. The Hourly to Salary Calculator builds that number in front of you as a growing pay tower — a stacked bar where the hourly block stacks into a daily block, then weekly, then monthly, then the full annual figure crowns the top. Watching the tower rise as you nudge the rate makes the abstract multiplication tangible.
The math is the inverse of salary-to-hourly: annual = hourly × hours per week × weeks per year. With the conventional full-time schedule of 40 hours across 52 weeks, that multiplier is 2,080. So $25 an hour is $52,000 a year, and the often-quoted shortcut — double the hourly rate and add three zeros — gives a quick approximation ($25 → roughly $50,000) that is close but always a little low, because it silently assumes a 2,000-hour year rather than 2,080.
The 2,080-hour standard is downstream of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the law that fixed the 40-hour workweek and the federal minimum wage in American labor practice. That minimum wage has sat at $7.25 an hour since July 2009, which annualizes to just $15,080 at full time — a figure that has driven the Fight for $15 movement and the wave of state and city minimums that now exceed $16 in places like California, Washington, and New York City. Entering $7.25 in this tool and seeing $15,080 climb the tower makes the policy debate concrete.
Hours worked is the lever most people forget. A line cook clocking 48 hours a week at $20 is not at the $41,600 that a 40-hour week implies — they are at $49,920 before any overtime premium, and if those eight extra hours are paid at the FLSA-mandated 1.5× rate for non-exempt workers, the real annual figure is higher still. The hours-per-week slider on this calculator exists so gig workers, hospitality staff, and tradespeople can model their actual schedule instead of a tidy 40.
Weeks worked matters just as much for anyone who is not on a year-round salary. A seasonal lifeguard working 14 weeks, a substitute teacher working 36, or a contractor who takes a month of unpaid downtime should slide weeks-per-year down accordingly, because multiplying their hourly rate by a full 52 weeks would overstate their true annual income. The tool defaults to 52 for the clean full-time case but is built to model the messy real one.
There is a tax wrinkle worth naming. The annual figure the tower produces is gross income — before federal income tax, the 7.65% combined employee share of FICA (Social Security and Medicare), state income tax, and any pre-tax benefit deductions. For budgeting, most US workers should expect take-home pay of roughly 70 to 80 percent of the gross annual figure, with the exact share depending on filing status, state, and deductions tracked on Form W-4.
The reverse trip — starting from a salary and dividing down to an hourly rate — is handled by our companion Salary to Hourly Calculator, and the two together cover every way a job is quoted. Whether you are an hourly employee evaluating a salaried promotion, a freelancer setting a rate to match a target salary, or a manager benchmarking a wage band, moving fluidly between hourly and annual is the core literacy of reading compensation.
Trusted by supervisors, freelancers, and payroll teams
“My pickers always ask what their raise actually means per year. I pull up the pay tower, slide their hours to the 45 they really work, and the annual number stacks up right in front of them. It turns a confusing conversation into a thirty-second one.”
“I wanted my $68/hr to match a $120k target salary. The tower showed I needed about 34 billable hours a week across 52 weeks to hit it. Seeing the annual block grow as I adjusted made pricing my retainer obvious.”
“When servers move from $13 plus tips to a flat $22, they want to know the yearly figure. The weeks-per-year slider lets me model our slow January closures honestly instead of pretending it is a clean 52-week year.”
“Converting a $40/hr contractor to a salaried band is delicate. This tool gives me the apples-to-apples annual number, including the overtime note, so the offer letter holds up and nobody feels short-changed.”
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