Salary Converter (Hourly ↔ Monthly ↔ Annual)

Tell it the pay figure you know — hourly, monthly or annual — and it fills in the other three, using your real hours per week rather than assuming everyone works the same. All figures are gross, before tax.

How to use it

Pick what you knowHourly rate, monthly pay or annual salary — whichever the job ad or contract states.
Set your hoursHours per week and paid weeks per year. The 40 and 52 defaults fit a standard full-time contract; part-time just needs the real numbers.
Read the restHourly, weekly, monthly and annual, all consistent with each other.

Comparing offers that speak different languages

Job offers refuse to use the same units. One quotes 22.50 an hour, another 3,600 a month, a third 45,000 a year. None of them is comparable by glancing, and the mental shortcuts people use — hourly times two thousand, monthly times twelve — quietly assume a 40-hour, 52-week arrangement that many jobs do not have. This converter puts all four figures on one screen, computed from the hours you actually work.

The two settings do the honest work. Hours per week corrects the comparison between a 37.5-hour office contract and a 40-hour one — a 6.7% difference that never appears in the headline number. Paid weeks corrects for holiday: an hourly job without paid leave at 48 working weeks pays 8% less per year than the same rate with leave, which is exactly the kind of gap that makes a higher hourly rate worse than a lower salary.

The 2,080 shortcut, and when it misleads

Full-time American convention says a year is 2,080 hours (40 × 52), which gives the handy rule that hourly × 2 ≈ annual in thousands: 25 an hour ≈ 50k. It is a fine estimate for a standard contract and drifts for everything else — shorter weeks, unpaid weeks, overtime. When a decision hangs on the number, thirty seconds with the real inputs beats the rule.

Gross is the honest boundary

Everything here is before tax, because tax is personal: country, municipality, benefits and deductions all move the take-home figure. A converter that guessed would be wrong for nearly everyone. Compare offers gross — the basis on which they are made — and run the winner through your own country's official tax calculator for the take-home.

Salary numbers are sensitive; these stay on your device and are never sent or stored.

Questions people ask

What is 20 an hour as an annual salary?

At 40 hours a week, 52 weeks: 41,600 a year, or about 3,467 a month. The quick mental version: at full time, hourly × 2,000 ≈ annual (the exact factor is 2,080), so 20 an hour is roughly 40k.

What is 3,000 a month per hour?

36,000 a year, which at 40-hour weeks is about 17.31 an hour. The division that matters is by your actual weekly hours — at 37.5 hours it becomes 18.46.

Why does the hours-per-week setting matter so much?

Because the standard week is not standard. Finland commonly runs 37.5-hour weeks, many contracts run 35, retail shifts vary. Comparing an hourly job at 37.5 hours against a salary quoted for 40 without adjusting makes the salary look 6.7% better than it is. Type the real hours and the comparison becomes fair.

What are the paid weeks for?

Hourly workers without paid holiday only earn for the weeks they work — set 48 paid weeks and the annual figure drops accordingly. Salaried contracts with paid holiday keep 52, because pay continues through leave. This one setting is the biggest real difference between an hourly rate and a salary that look equal.

Is this before or after tax?

Before — gross pay, like job ads and contracts. Take-home depends on your country, municipality and deductions, so an honest converter stops at gross rather than guessing your tax.

Why does my payslip differ slightly from the monthly figure?

Monthly here is annual ÷ 12, the standard convention. Employers paying by worked hours make some months bigger than others because months have 20 to 23 working days. Over the year the figures reconcile.