Salary Calculator
Convert between hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and annual salary. Estimate take-home pay after taxes.
Convert a salary between hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and annual pay, and estimate roughly how much lands in your pocket after federal tax, state tax, and payroll (FICA) deductions.
How Salary Calculator Works
Whatever pay period you enter is first converted to an annual figure: hourly pay is multiplied by your hours per week times weeks per year, weekly pay by weeks per year, biweekly by 26, semi-monthly by 24, and monthly by 12. From that single annual number, every other figure — hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly — is derived by dividing back down, using your entered hours-per-week and weeks-per-year to keep the conversions consistent with each other.
For the take-home estimate, the calculator applies your entered flat federal and state tax rates directly to the annual gross, then adds an approximate payroll tax of 7.65% (combined Social Security and Medicare) on income up to a $160,200 wage base, plus any other annual deductions you list. Net pay is simply gross income minus all of that.
Because the federal and state rates are single flat percentages you supply rather than progressive brackets, this tool is best used for a quick take-home approximation — it doesn't model bracket-based marginal federal tax the way a full income tax calculator does.
See It In Action
Who Uses Salary Calculator and Why
- Converting an annual salary offer into hourly, weekly, and monthly figures to compare against a job paid on a different schedule.
- Getting a rough take-home pay estimate after federal tax, state tax, and payroll (FICA) deductions.
- Adjusting pay-period conversions for a part-time or seasonal schedule that doesn't follow a standard 40-hour, 52-week year.
- Checking how much of a raise actually reaches your paycheck once flat tax rates are applied.
Mistakes to Avoid
- Treating the take-home estimate as equivalent to a bracket-based federal tax calculation — this tool applies your entered federal and state rates as flat percentages, not progressive brackets, so it's a quick approximation rather than a precise bracket-by-bracket result.
- Leaving "Hours per Week" and "Weeks per Year" at the default 40/52 for a part-time or seasonal schedule — every converted figure (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly) is derived from those two inputs, so an inaccurate schedule throws off all of them.
- Forgetting the 7.65% FICA payroll tax is added on top of your entered federal and state rates, which is why the effective total tax rate in the example (34.65%) is higher than the 27% combined federal-plus-state rate alone.
Tips for Best Results
- For a more precise federal estimate that accounts for progressive brackets rather than a flat rate, cross-check with the Income Tax Calculator.
- Set your actual hours-per-week and weeks-per-year if your schedule isn't standard full-time — this keeps the derived hourly, daily, and weekly figures accurate to your real pay.
Fixing Common Problems
My daily rate doesn't match what I actually earn per day. — The daily rate is derived by dividing your weekly gross by five, assuming a standard five-day week — adjust your hours-per-week input if your actual schedule doesn't follow that pattern.
Terms Explained
FICA: Combined Social Security and Medicare payroll tax, applied here as an approximate 7.65% on income up to the Social Security wage base.
Take-home pay: Net income remaining after federal tax, state tax, payroll tax, and any other deductions are subtracted from gross pay.