To turn an hourly rate into a yearly salary, multiply it by your paid hours per week and paid weeks per year. At 40 hours and 52 weeks, 25 an hour is 52,000 a year. To go the other way, divide the salary by the same number of hours: 60,000 a year is about 28.85 an hour. This converter shows hourly, weekly, every-two-weeks, twice-a-month, monthly and yearly pay at once.
A worked example
This hypothetical example uses US dollars and a simplified paid-hours schedule, not an employment offer or a promise of take-home pay.
At 25 an hour for 40 hours a week and 52 paid weeks, yearly pay is 52,000. That is 1,000 a week, 2,000 every two weeks, 2,166.67 twice a month and 4,333.33 a month. If only 50 weeks are paid, the same hourly rate gives 50,000 a year, so check whether your time off is paid before comparing offers.
Why biweekly and twice-monthly pay differ
With the default 52 paid weeks, this converter uses 26 two-week periods and 24 twice-monthly periods. For the same annual amount, dividing by 26 gives a smaller amount per period than dividing by 24. These are planning averages, not a payroll calendar. Some calendar years have 27 biweekly pay dates; the OPM fact sheet explains the 26-or-27-pay-date distinction for US federal payroll.
Use your employer’s actual dates and deductions when planning bills. A month with a third payday does not automatically leave spare money: that pay may already be needed for annual costs or the following month.
Hours per year: 2,080 or 2,087
Forty hours a week for 52 weeks is 2,080 hours, the figure this converter uses by default. The US Office of Personnel Management uses a 2,087-hour divisor to compute hourly rates for most federal civilian employees, so a federal salary of 60,000 works out to about 28.75 an hour rather than 28.85. Your employer’s own method decides your actual rate.
What the results leave out
Display currency labels the amounts; it does not convert them. The arithmetic can be used outside the US with your own paid hours and weeks, but the federal 2,087-hour reference is US-specific. When paid weeks are changed, weekly and two-week results reflect those paid periods, while monthly and twice-monthly figures remain annual averages. Actual payroll rounding, contracts and local rules can differ.
All figures are gross pay. Tax, retirement contributions, health premiums and other deductions reduce what reaches your account, and overtime or unpaid leave changes the totals. Once you know your take-home pay, plan it with the 50/30/20 budget planner or the monthly budget template, and check housing with the rent affordability calculator.