Salary converter. One figure in, every equivalent out.

How to use the Salary Converter

This converter takes one pay figure and shows what it equals per hour, day, week, two weeks, month and year. It first turns your figure into an annual amount using your own hours, days, weeks and unpaid time off, then divides that annual amount back out for every other period. Use it to compare a job offer with a contract rate, set a freelance day rate or check what an hourly wage means over a year.

Step by step

1. 1
   Enter your pay

   Type the figure you have into Pay amount, then choose what it covers under Per: Hour, Day, Week, Two weeks (biweekly), Month or Year (annual). Per starts on Year (annual). The table shows a prompt instead of results until you enter an amount.

2. 2
   Set your working week

   Drag Hours per week between 1 and 80, in half hour steps; it starts at 40. Pick Days per week from 1 to 7; it starts at 5.

3. 3
   Set your working year

   Weeks per year starts at 52; the hint notes that 52.14 is the exact average. Enter any weeks you are not paid for under Unpaid time off (weeks per year), which starts at 0. Freelancers often use this for holidays and gaps between contracts.

4. 4
   Pick a currency symbol

   Choose a symbol under Currency symbol, or None. It only changes the symbol in front of each amount; nothing is converted between currencies.

5. 5
   Read the table

   The table lists every period with its Amount and a How it's calculated column showing the formula with your numbers. The row matching your Per choice is marked you entered.

6. 6
   Copy or download

   Press Copy table for a plain text version with formulas and your assumptions, or Download CSV to save salary-conversion.csv for a spreadsheet. Both buttons stay gray until there is a result.

Reading the result

• The line beside the currency box shows Effective paid weeks, which is weeks per year minus unpaid time off, along with your hours and days per week. If unpaid time off uses up the whole year, it asks you to lower it.
• Your figure is turned into an annual amount first. Then hourly is annual divided by paid weeks times hours per week, daily is annual divided by paid weeks times days per week, weekly is annual divided by paid weeks, biweekly is weekly times 2 and monthly is annual divided by 12.
• Worked example: $25 per Hour with the defaults gives Annual $52,000.00, Monthly $4,333.33, Weekly $1,000.00 and Daily $200.00. Add 4 weeks of unpaid time off and Annual drops to $48,000.00.
• Amounts show two decimals in your browser's number format. The CSV file uses plain numbers with no currency symbol so spreadsheets can add them up.

Tips and common mistakes

• Monthly is always annual divided by 12, not four weeks. With 52 paid weeks a month comes out at about 4.33 times weekly, so do not expect it to equal weekly times 4.
• If you enter a Month or Year figure, unpaid time off does not lower the annual amount. It raises the hourly, daily and weekly equivalents instead, because the same pay covers fewer working weeks.
• The tool does no tax or deduction math. Every figure stays gross or net, matching whatever you typed in.
• To compare a salaried job with contract work, convert each one to Hour with the hours and unpaid weeks that really apply to it.
• The currency symbol is only a label. For pay in two currencies, convert the amount yourself before you enter it.

Privacy and limits

All the math runs in your browser and your pay figures are never sent or saved. The only thing stored is your Currency symbol choice, kept in this browser's local storage so it is still set next time. Copy table writes to your clipboard and Download CSV saves a file to your device.

Back to the tool

Every pay period, one honest table.

• Convert any pay period to hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly and annual in one step, enter whichever figure you have.
• Set custom hours and days per week so the result reflects your actual schedule, not a default 9-to-5.
• Account for unpaid time off to see your real effective annual pay as a freelancer or contractor.
• See the formula behind every row so you can sanity-check a job offer or negotiate a rate with confidence.
• Copy the full table as plain text or download a CSV to open in Excel, Sheets or any spreadsheet.
• Switch currency symbols (USD, EUR, GBP, INR, JPY, AUD, CAD) for international comparisons, your choice is remembered on this device.

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