Salary to Hourly Converter

Divide salary by 2,000 (the real divisor is 2,080 — 40 hours × 52 weeks — but 2,000 makes it mental math): $60,000 ≈ $30/hr, $50,000 ≈ $25/hr. Going the other way, double the hourly rate and add three zeros: $22/hr ≈ $44,000. Handy for reading job postings that mix formats.

Before — all figures are gross pay, which is how offers and postings are quoted. Take-home is typically 65–80% of gross after federal and state income tax, Social Security and Medicare (7.65%), plus insurance premiums and retirement contributions, varying with state, income, and elections. A useful planning rough-cut: multiply any figure here by 0.75.

That's what the two adjustable fields are for. Hourly workers with two unpaid vacation weeks should use 50 paid weeks — a $25/hr job then grosses $50,000, not $52,000. Salaried workers averaging 50-hour weeks should run the converter at 50 hours to see the true hourly rate: that $70,000 salary drops from $33.65 to $26.92 per hour, which reframes offer comparisons entirely.

Because 26 biweekly paychecks don't divide evenly into 12 months — most months have two paychecks, but two months a year have three. The biweekly figure here is yearly ÷ 26 (an actual paycheck); monthly is yearly ÷ 12 (a budgeting average). Budgeting on two paychecks a month and treating the two three-paycheck months as bonus is a classic and sensible approach.