Salary & income · 1 min
The folklore conversion — hourly times 2,080 — assumes fifty-two paid weeks and a benefits fairy. This instrument runs the honest exchange rate both ways: an hourly rate through real paid weeks and the benefits gap to a salary equivalent, and a salary back to what its hour truly clears.
Hours actually billed or on the clock — not hours worked.
52 minus unpaid leave, gaps between contracts, the dry January.
Employer pension, health cover, paid leave, sick days — the package hourly work rarely carries. Typical full-time loads run 15–30%.
Everything is calculated in your browser as you type. Nothing you enter is sent or stored, and no account is needed.
×2080 is a fantasy calendar.
$106,271
the honest salary equivalent of this hourly rate
| Gross at your real paid hours | — |
| The ×2080 folklore figure | — |
| Benefits gap an employee gets on top | — |
| Honest salary equivalent | — |
| The salary whose hour equals this rate | — |
| If paid weeks are | Gross / yr | Salary equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | — |
| — | — | — |
| — | — | — |
Paid weeks is where hourly incomes quietly leak: every unpaid gap week costs a full week's gross. Contractors comparing to salaries should count last year's actual calendar, not this year's plan.
The benefits load varies wildly by country and employer — pension matching alone can swing five points. Use your actual package's value, not the default, when the comparison matters.
Rate conversions price money, not conditions. Autonomy, choosing clients, and the right to say no have a value this exchange rate can't see — and it isn't zero.
Everything below is calculated from your inputs. Nothing is fetched, nothing is looked up.
gross = rate × hours × paid_weeks
salary_equiv = gross / (1 + benefits)
rate_from_salary = salary × (1 + benefits) / (hours × paid_weeks)
The gauge reads your honest figure against the ×2080 folklore, parity at 100% — the gap between them is exactly the unpaid weeks and the benefits fairy. The reverse line answers the interview question properly: what hourly rate matches a given salary once the employer's quiet contributions are counted.
Limitations. Tax treatment of contractors versus employees differs by jurisdiction and can outweigh the benefits gap in either direction; this page converts gross to gross. Overtime rules and equity are outside.