Pay Converter & Proration
Hourly to annual and back on your own hours, part of a pay period worked out three ways, and the years a biweekly payroll pays 27 times.
Everything is worked out in your browser. A file of rates is read there too, and nothing is uploaded.
$28.85
An hour on 2,080 hours
the usual shortcut, the same every year
$28.74
An hour in 2026
261 weekdays, 2,088 hours
The same pay, every way
| Per | Full time |
|---|---|
| Hourly | $28.85 |
| Daily | $230.77 |
| Weekly | $1,153.85 |
| Every two weeks | $2,307.69 |
| Twice a month | $2,500.00 |
| Monthly | $5,000.00 |
| Annual | $60,000.00 |
The hourly equivalent, year by year
A salary is earned over the weekdays a year actually has. Useful when comparing a salary to an hourly rate, or setting a daily rate for a year.
| Year | Weekdays | Hours | An hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 261 | 2,088 | $28.74 |
| 2027 | 261 | 2,088 | $28.74 |
| 2028 | 260 | 2,080 | $28.85 |
| 2029 | 261 | 2,088 | $28.74 |
| 2030 | 261 | 2,088 | $28.74 |
How this was worked out
- Everything goes through the year: 40 hours a week, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, so a full-time year is 2,080 hours.
- Twice a month is 24 paydays and monthly is 12, whatever the calendar. Every two weeks is 26 by convention; see the pay dates for the years that have 27.
- A month is 4.33 weeks, not 4. Weekly pay times four would make a month $4,615.38 instead of $5,000.00.
- At full time.
- The yearly hourly figures count Monday to Friday in each calendar year, holidays included as paid days, which is how a salary is usually earned.
2,080 hours is a convention, not a year
Forty hours times fifty-two weeks is 2,080, and it is the right number for converting a rate on paper. A real year has 260, 261 or 262 weekdays, so the same salary works out to a slightly different hourly figure each year. Both are shown: the shortcut, and the year you are in. The gap matters when a salary is compared with an hourly rate, or when a daily rate is set.
A month is 4.33 weeks, not 4. Multiplying weekly pay by four understates a month by one part in thirteen, so every conversion here goes through the year.
Three ways to pay part of a period, and they disagree
Somebody who starts on the 17th can be paid by calendar days, by working days, or at a daily rate from the salary. The three give different amounts for the same days, and none is wrong. They are shown side by side with the spread between them. Which one your organization uses is a pay policy, and the tool does not choose it.
The year with 27 paydays
Fifty-two weeks is 364 days, so a biweekly payday drifts a day or two earlier each year, and about every eleven years it fits 27 times into one calendar year. A salary paid at one twenty-sixth per check then pays 3.8% more than the salary that year. The tool finds those years from any one payday and shows both answers: the usual check, and one twenty-seventh.
A whole file, including the rows that do not add up
A roster often keeps salaries and hourly rates in one column. Each row is read by its pay type, and converted to an annual and an hourly figure so everyone can be compared. A value far outside the usual range for its type, such as 27.88 on a salaried row, is converted as written and marked, never corrected on a guess. The Compa-Ratio Calculator takes it from there.
What this does not do
It does not work out overtime, final pay, deductions or tax, and it does not decide what anyone is owed. It does arithmetic on the rates, hours and dates you give it, and shows its working.