Should I use 52 weeks or fewer for weeks per year?

Use 52 weeks if your time off is paid — salaried employees and hourly workers with paid vacation are still paid across the whole year, so the full 52 weeks applies. Use fewer weeks only if your time off is unpaid: an hourly worker who takes two unpaid weeks actually earns 50 weeks of pay, so entering 50 gives a truer annual figure. This is the distinction that trips most people up.

Does this calculator show my take-home pay?

No. This converts between hourly and salary as gross pay — the amount before any deductions. Income tax, CPP and EI still come off. For the net figure that actually lands in your account, use the take-home pay calculator, which applies federal and provincial tax, CPP and EI for your province.

Hourly to Salary Calculator (2026)

Q: How do you convert an hourly wage to an annual salary?

Multiply your hourly rate by the hours you work per week and the weeks you work per year. Full-time is usually 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, which is 2,080 hours — so an hourly wage times 2,080 gives the annual salary. For example, $25 an hour is $25 × 2,080 = $52,000 a year. Work fewer hours or fewer weeks and you lower the multiplier accordingly.

Q: What is $20 an hour annually?

At 40 hours a week for 52 weeks (2,080 hours), $20 an hour is $41,600 a year before tax. That's about $3,467 a month, $1,600 every two weeks, or $800 a week. Your take-home would be lower after income tax, CPP and EI.

Turn an hourly wage into a yearly salary — and monthly, biweekly, weekly and daily pay — from one number. Set your hours a week and weeks a year, and the paid-vacation catch is handled. These are gross figures, before tax; for net pay, use the take-home pay calculator.

Pay amount

This amount is per

Hours per week

Weeks per year 52 if your time off is paid; fewer if it's unpaid

How to convert an hourly wage to a salary

The whole conversion is one multiplication: hourly rate × hours per week × weeks per year. Full-time in Canada is usually 40 hours a week across 52 weeks, which is 2,080 hours a year — so the quick version is hourly rate × 2,080. At $25 an hour that's $52,000; at $20 an hour it's $41,600. Change the hours or weeks and the annual figure moves with them, which is how a part-time or seasonal schedule gets costed correctly.

To go the other way — salary to hourly — divide the annual figure by those same 2,080 hours. A $60,000 salary is about $28.85 an hour full-time. The calculator does both directions: pick what your number is "per" and it fills in the rest of the ladder.

Paid vacation vs unpaid time off — the catch

This is where hourly-to-salary math usually goes wrong. If your time off is paid — every salaried job and any hourly job with paid vacation — you're paid across the whole year, so you use the full 52 weeks. Dropping to 50 to "account for two weeks off" would understate your salary, because those weeks are paid.

Only reduce the weeks when the time off is unpaid. An hourly worker who takes two unpaid weeks genuinely earns 50 weeks of pay, so entering 50 gives the real annual number. Same logic for seasonal or contract work: count the weeks you're actually paid for. Statutory holidays are usually paid, so they don't change the count.

The full pay ladder

Once the annual figure is set, every other frequency is just that number divided into pay periods: monthly is annual ÷ 12, biweekly is ÷ 26, weekly is ÷ 52, and a daily rate is roughly ÷ 260 (a standard year of working days). The hourly rate is the annual divided by your yearly hours. The breakdown in the result shows all of them, so a single input answers "what's that per month?" and "what's that an hour?" at the same time.

Keep in mind these are gross — before income tax, CPP and EI. Two people on the same $60,000 salary take home different amounts depending on their province and situation. When you want the number that actually hits your bank account, the take-home pay calculator runs the deductions for all 13 provinces and territories, and the pay raise calculator shows how much of an increase you'd keep.

Common hourly rates as a salary

Full-time at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks (2,080 hours a year), before tax:

Hourly	Annual salary	Monthly
$15 / hr	$31,200	$2,600
$17 / hr	$35,360	$2,947
$18 / hr	$37,440	$3,120
$20 / hr	$41,600	$3,467
$22 / hr	$45,760	$3,813
$25 / hr	$52,000	$4,333
$30 / hr	$62,400	$5,200
$35 / hr	$72,800	$6,067
$40 / hr	$83,200	$6,933
$45 / hr	$93,600	$7,800
$50 / hr	$104,000	$8,667

Gross pay at 2,080 hours a year. Change the hours or weeks in the calculator for part-time, seasonal or unpaid-leave schedules.

Common questions

How do you convert an hourly wage to an annual salary?

Multiply hourly rate × hours per week × weeks per year. Full-time is 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours, so hourly × 2,080 is the salary — e.g. $25/hr × 2,080 = $52,000. Fewer hours or weeks lowers the multiplier.

What is $20 an hour annually?

At 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, $20/hr is $41,600 a year gross — about $3,467 a month, $1,600 biweekly, or $800 a week. Take-home is lower after tax, CPP and EI.

Should I use 52 weeks or fewer?

52 if your time off is paid (salaried, or hourly with paid vacation) — you're paid all year. Use fewer weeks only for unpaid time off: two unpaid weeks means 50 paid weeks, so enter 50. Statutory holidays are usually paid.

Does this show my take-home pay?

No — it's gross pay, before deductions. For the net amount after income tax, CPP and EI, use the take-home pay calculator.