Enter your pay at any interval — hourly, weekly, monthly, or annual — and instantly see what it converts to across the rest, adjusted for your actual hours and weeks worked.
Every field is derived from a single common figure — your annual gross pay — computed from whichever period you entered: annual = hourly × hours/week × weeks/year (or the equivalent for daily, weekly, and monthly). Once the annual figure is known, every other period is just that number divided back down: weekly = annual ÷ weeks/year, monthly = annual ÷ 12, and so on.
They're easy to mix up but genuinely different. Bi-weekly means every two weeks on the same weekday (e.g., every other Friday) — that's 26 pay periods a year, and twice a year the calendar gives you three paychecks in one month. Semi-monthly means twice a month on fixed calendar dates (like the 15th and the last day) — always exactly 24 pay periods a year, but the number of days between checks varies slightly (14–17 days). For the same annual salary, bi-weekly paychecks are smaller than semi-monthly ones, since the same total is split 26 ways instead of 24.
No — every number above is gross pay, before income tax, payroll tax, or benefit deductions. Once you know your annual or hourly gross figure here, the Paycheck Calculator estimates what actually lands in your bank account after tax and payroll withholding.
Adjust the hours-per-week and days-per-week fields to your real schedule — part-time, four-day weeks, and irregular schedules all convert correctly once those two numbers reflect reality rather than the default full-time assumption of 40 hours across 5 days.
Lower "weeks worked per year" below 52 to account for unpaid leave — a contractor who takes 4 unpaid weeks off should use 48, not 52, since those weeks don't contribute to actual annual earnings. Salaried employees with paid time off should generally leave it at 52, since PTO is already paid and doesn't reduce total annual pay.
Comparing job offers, moonlighting rates, freelance quotes, or the value of unpaid overtime all become easier once a salary is expressed as an hourly rate — it's the only unit that's directly comparable across a full-time job, a part-time job, and a freelance contract. Keep in mind this reverse-calculated hourly figure is for comparison only; it doesn't imply the job actually pays overtime the way an hourly position legally must.
Worked example: $30/hour, 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year → annual = 30 × 40 × 52 = $62,400. From there: weekly = $1,200, bi-weekly = $2,400, semi-monthly = $2,600, monthly = $5,200. Notice semi-monthly ($2,600) is higher than half of bi-weekly's fortnightly figure ($2,400) — that's the 24-vs-26-periods difference in action, not a rounding error.