Free Payroll & Time Calculators

Every hourly paycheck eventually runs through the same math problem. A time clock says 7 hours and 30 minutes, but payroll software wants 7.5. A shift that starts at 8:45 and ends at 5:12 has to become a clean decimal number before anyone gets paid correctly. The mistake almost everyone makes is the same one: treating minutes like cents, so 30 minutes becomes .30 instead of .5, and 45 minutes becomes .45 instead of .75. Minutes run on base 60, not base 100, and that one fact is where most manual timesheet math goes wrong.

The hours to decimal calculator on this site handles that conversion instantly, whether you're working with one punch time or an entire week of them. Type a clock time like 8:32 and watch the decimal update as you go, or type the decimal and get the clock time back. If you're checking your own hours before a paycheck lands, that back and forth is usually all you need. If you're the one running payroll, the batch mode is built for you: paste in a full week of punches, including lunch breaks, and it converts every row to decimal hours and totals them automatically. There's no spreadsheet formula to remember and nothing to install.

People land on this kind of tool searching for very specific numbers: how many hours is 20 minutes in decimal, what does 45 minutes in decimal look like, or how to turn a quarter hour into 0.25. The short version is always the same. Divide the minutes by 60. Fifteen minutes is 0.25, twenty minutes is about 0.33, thirty minutes is exactly 0.5, and forty-five minutes is 0.75. There's a full reference chart with every value from 1 to 60 minutes if you want to skip the math and just look one up.

Payroll rounding adds another layer. Some employers round punches to the nearest 5, 6, 10, or 15 minutes before converting to decimal, and federal wage and hour rules allow rounding to the nearest quarter hour as long as it doesn't shortchange employees over time. The calculator lets you apply any of those rounding rules to a single punch or a whole batch before totals are calculated, so the number you see matches what a real payroll system would produce, not just a raw conversion.

This isn't just a one-value converter. It's built for the whole range of ways people actually search for this: a plain time to decimal calculator for a single shift, an hour minute conversion for a weekly total, a decimal time chart for someone who just wants to glance up an answer, and a full timesheet converter for anyone doing payroll for a small team by hand. Hourly employees use it to double-check a pay stub against their own punch times. Bookkeepers and small-business owners use it to convert a week of handwritten or spreadsheet time entries into decimal hours before running payroll, without needing a full time-and-attendance system for a handful of employees.

Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you type or paste gets uploaded, stored, or sent anywhere, which matters if you're pasting real employee timesheets into a browser tab. Once you have your decimal hours, you can go straight to the paycheck calculator to estimate take-home pay by state, or the pay raise calculator to see what a new hourly rate or percentage increase actually adds to your paycheck. All three tools are free, and none of them ask for an account.

Job postings and pay stubs rarely speak the same language. One lists $22 an hour, the next lists $52,000 a year, and comparing them in your head usually means guessing. That guess is exactly what the hourly to salary calculator on this site removes. Type in a wage and it shows the weekly, biweekly, monthly, and annual number that wage actually adds up to, and it works the other direction too, turning a salary figure back into an hourly rate so both sides of an offer line up on the same terms.

The math itself is simple once you see it laid out, which is part of why the calculator exists. An hourly rate times 40 hours a week times 52 weeks a year gives you an annual salary. Twenty dollars an hour comes out to $41,600 a year. Twenty-five dollars an hour is $52,000. Thirty dollars an hour is $62,400. People search these exact numbers constantly, things like "$20 an hour is how much a year" or "$25 an hour is how much a year," because a wage on its own doesn't mean much until it's converted into something you can budget against, negotiate with, or compare across job offers. The tool answers that instantly instead of making you do 40 times 52 by hand, or worse, guessing.

It runs the reverse direction just as easily. If you already know the salary you want and need to know what hourly wage matches it, the salary to hourly calculator divides that annual number by your total working hours for the year. A $45,000 salary works out to roughly $21.63 an hour, a $60,000 salary to about $28.85, and a $75,000 salary to around $36.06, all assuming the standard 40-hour week. This site also has dedicated pages built for the most common salary figures people look up, things like $45,000 salary to hourly, plus $50,000, $60,000, $65,000, $70,000, $75,000, $80,000, and $90,000, each one pre-loaded so you land on the exact number you searched for instead of typing it in yourself.

None of this assumes a standard schedule is your schedule, either. The 40-hour, 52-week default is just a starting point. Part-time workers, seasonal employees, and anyone who takes unpaid weeks off during the year will get a misleading annual figure if a calculator silently assumes full-time, year-round work, so both the hours-per-week and weeks-per-year fields here are editable. Change either one and the whole conversion, weekly through annual, recalculates immediately. That's also why there's a full hourly-to-salary chart on the calculator page itself, covering rates from $15 to $50 an hour at a glance, for anyone who'd rather scan a table than type in a number.

Every figure this tool produces is gross pay, the number before federal tax, FICA, or state tax get taken out, and that's a deliberate scope, not a limitation someone forgot about. Once you have an annual salary from a wage, or an hourly rate from a salary, the paycheck calculator picks up exactly where this one leaves off, walking that gross number through federal withholding, FICA, and your specific state's tax rules to show what actually lands in your account. And like every tool here, the conversion happens entirely in your browser. Nothing you type gets uploaded, stored, or sent anywhere, whether you're checking a single job offer or comparing five of them back to back.

A job offer or a pay stub usually leads with one number, the salary or the gross pay for the period, and that number is almost never what actually shows up in your bank account. Between gross pay and take-home pay sits federal income tax, FICA, and, depending on where you live, a state income tax on top of that. The paycheck calculator on this site exists to close that gap. Enter a salary or hourly rate, pick your state and filing status, and it walks the number through the same math your employer's payroll system runs, then shows you exactly where each dollar goes instead of handing back a single final figure.

The state you pick changes the outcome more than most people expect. Run the same $70,000 salary through a Texas paycheck calculator and a California paycheck calculator and you'll get two different take-home numbers, not because the federal math is different, but because Texas doesn't tax wage income at all while California does, on a bracket system with its own rates. The same is true comparing a Florida paycheck calculator against an Illinois paycheck calculator, or a Washington paycheck calculator against a New York paycheck calculator. This tool covers all 50 states individually, including nine states with no income tax and the handful, like Maryland, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, where a local or county tax layers on top of the state rate. Picking the wrong state, or skipping that step entirely the way a generic net pay calculator often does, is the single biggest reason an estimate stops matching a real paycheck.

Every result breaks down the same way: gross pay, federal tax, FICA, state tax, and finally net pay, each shown as its own labeled line rather than folded into one lump deduction. Federal tax is calculated on your taxable income (gross pay minus your standard deduction) using the current year's IRS brackets for your filing status, whether that's single, married filing jointly, married filing separately, or head of household. FICA is the flat 6.2% Social Security and 1.45% Medicare withholding that applies the same way to every W-2 paycheck nationwide, capped at the annual Social Security wage base, with an extra 0.9% Medicare surtax once income clears $200,000 (single) or $250,000 (married filing jointly). Seeing federal tax and FICA broken out separately from state tax makes it obvious how much of a paycheck is fixed by federal rules no matter where you live, and how much genuinely depends on your state.

It also handles the question people actually ask day to day, which usually isn't "what's my annual take-home pay" but "what's actually going to hit my account this Friday." A pay-frequency toggle switches the same result between annual, monthly, biweekly, and weekly views, so a salaried employee paid every two weeks and an hourly employee paid weekly can both get a number that matches their own paycheck schedule. If you're paid hourly and want a salary figure to start from, the hourly to salary calculator converts a rate into an annual number first, and if you're still working from raw punch times, the hours to decimal calculator turns those into clean hours before you plug anything into a paycheck estimate at all.

None of this is a substitute for an actual pay stub. It's built on verified 2026 federal brackets, FICA rules, and state-by-state tax data, but it doesn't know about your specific 401(k) contribution, health insurance premium, HSA deduction, or every local tax jurisdiction in the country, so treat it as a close, reliable estimate for planning a budget, comparing job offers, or sanity-checking a real paycheck, not as tax advice. For the full walkthrough of how federal withholding is actually calculated, step by step, see how paycheck withholding works. And like the other tools here, everything runs client-side. Your salary, your state, and your filing status stay in your browser and are never uploaded anywhere.

A raise offer usually arrives as one number: "you're getting a 4% bump" or "we can do an extra $3,000." On its own, that number doesn't tell you much. What does it mean for your actual paycheck next month? Is it a good raise compared to what inflation took away this year? What would you have needed to hit the salary you were actually hoping for? The pay raise calculator on this site exists to answer those questions in one place, without a spreadsheet.

It works as both a pay raise calculator and a salary increase calculator, because those are really the same tool wearing two names. Enter your current annual salary and your pay frequency, then apply a raise either as a percentage or a flat dollar amount. The calculator immediately shows the raise amount, your new annual salary, your new monthly pay, and what that raise adds to each individual paycheck. That last part matters more than people expect. A 5% raise sounds meaningful until you see it's an extra $38 a biweekly paycheck after a modest salary, and seeing the real number upfront helps you judge an offer honestly instead of reacting to a headline percentage.

The tool also runs the math backward. Instead of applying a raise, you can enter a target salary, the number you actually want to be earning, and the calculator works out the exact percentage raise and dollar raise needed to get there from where you are now. This is the version people usually want right before a negotiation, when they know their number but need to walk in with the percentage that justifies it. It's the same idea behind what's sometimes searched as a percent to goal calculator, just built specifically around salary and pay raise math instead of a generic goal figure.

There's a third piece that most raise calculators skip entirely: inflation. A raise percentage on paper is called the nominal raise, and it isn't the same as what that raise is actually worth once rising prices are factored in. A 5% raise during a year of 3% inflation isn't really a 5% improvement in what you can afford, it's closer to 1.9%, because inflation quietly ate most of the gain. The real vs. nominal section of the calculator takes your raise and a given inflation rate and shows you that real number directly, in both percentage and dollar terms. It's a small addition, but it answers a question a lot of people ask themselves after a raise lands and somehow still doesn't feel like enough: it's usually not in your head, the math backs it up.

People come to this page searching all kinds of related questions: how to calculate a pay raise, how to calculate a salary increase percentage, what a 3 percent raise on an hourly wage actually comes out to, or what counts as an average raise after a year on the job. The calculator covers the hands-on version of all of that, but the page itself also breaks down the formulas in plain terms, so if you'd rather do the math yourself once and remember it, that's covered too. Typical annual merit raises in the US tend to land somewhere around 3% to 4.5%, with promotions running higher, though the number that matters most for any individual raise is still how it stacks up against inflation that year, not just the number itself.

Like the other tools here, it runs entirely in your browser. Nothing about your current salary, your raise, or your target pay gets uploaded or stored anywhere, which matters when the numbers you're testing are ones you haven't shared with anyone yet. Once you know your new salary, you can head straight to the paycheck calculator to see what that raise looks like after federal tax, FICA, and state tax come out, or use the hours to decimal calculator if you're an hourly employee working out what a new rate means across a full week of punches.