Hourly to Salary Converter

How to use it

1. Enter hourly pay, annual salary, hours per week, weeks per year, paid time off, holidays, sick days, overtime, and benefits value. Those choices determine the difference between headline pay and the number of hours you are actually expected to work or remain available.
2. Read annual pay from the hourly path, annual pay with benefits, effective hourly rate from the salary path, effective hourly with benefits, paid days total, and overtime annual gross. If effective work hours fall near or below 1,200, your PTO and schedule assumptions are aggressive enough to materially change the comparison.
3. Compare effective hourly economics, not just annual headline pay. If the salaried role's effective hourly value is 15-20% below your freelance or contracting rate, the stability premium may still be too small for the flexibility you give up.
4. Use the result to negotiate the component with the biggest impact: base salary, overtime terms, PTO, or employer-paid benefits. In many cases an extra week of PTO or $5,000 of benefits moves the real hourly value more than a small base-pay increase.
5. Re-run when PTO policy, overtime expectations, weekly schedule, or benefits change. Track effective hourly value over time because employers often adjust titles faster than the actual economics of the role.

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Use it from code

The same calculation as a JavaScript module you can import. It runs where you import it, with no request, key or rate limit.

import { compute } from "https://aibizhub.io/engines/hourly-to-salary-converter.js";

Input and output contract, TypeScript types and the guide for agents.