A $70,000 offer once made me turn down $65/hour contract work, until I divided properly. The salary, spread over real hours including unpaid overtime, came to roughly $30/hour with benefits caveats; the contract was nearly double the cash per hour. Headline numbers are marketing; hourly truth is accounting.
Enter annual salary and actual weekly hours to get true hourly, weekly, monthly equivalents, and run it in reverse to price contract rates from salary targets. The honest inputs matter: use actual hours (that ’40-hour’ job running 50s changes everything), and remember salary bundles paid leave, benefits, and stability that contract rates must replace.
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How I use both directions: evaluating offers (normalize everything to hourly-with-benefits before comparing), setting freelance rates (target salary-equivalent ÷ billable hours, note billable, roughly half of working hours after admin and sales, plus self-employment tax and benefits markup, which is why $50k-salary-equivalent freelancing starts near $50–60/hour, not $25), and raises (convert the bump to hourly; ‘$5,000 more’ at 50-hour weeks is under $2/hour, negotiate with open eyes).
Bottom line: normalize to true hourly with real hours, price contracts from billable hours, convert raises before celebrating.
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How do you use Salary ↔ Hourly Wage Converter?
Open the Salary ↔ Hourly Wage Converter in your browser (Compare salaried and hourly pay). Type or paste your input, adjust the options, and copy the result. Everything runs locally on your device with no account and nothing stored, so the three steps below take seconds even for confidential work.
- Enter your numbers into the fields. The result recalculates as you type.
- Switch any unit or option to see the updated answer instantly.
- Copy the result with the copy button, or read the summary beneath it.
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