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Salary & hourly rate calculator

Convert your gross pay using your own working hours, days and weeks. These are time equivalents, before tax and benefits.

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Your gross pay and work schedule

Entered pay periodPer worked hourPer workdayPer calendar monthPer year

Gross pay for your chosen period (R)R0 to R1 000 000, with up to two decimal places. Blank is unknown.

Hours per workday0,25 to 16 hours, with up to two decimal places. Enter your own schedule.

Workdays per working week1 to 7 whole days. No legal or standard workweek is assumed.

Working weeks per year1 to 52 whole weeks. This isn't a paid-leave entitlement.

Compare hypothetical contractor invoice targets

Your gross time equivalentsFill in the details

Enter gross pay and all three work-schedule figures. Blank pay is unknown; entered zero is valid.

Your pay, overhead and working hours stay only on this page. Reloading or leaving clears them.

How it's worked out

Hourly pay is multiplied by your hours per workday, workdays per week and working weeks per year. Daily pay uses your days and weeks; monthly pay uses 12 calendar months; annual pay is already a yearly amount. No 40-hour week, paid leave, holidays or fixed monthly working hours are assumed.

Each gross equivalent is calculated independently from that same unrounded annual value, then rounded once to the nearest cent, with half a cent rounded up. A displayed hourly amount multiplied back may differ because it has already been rounded.

The optional contractor target adds your entered annual overhead to the exact annual gross equivalent. It divides this unrounded target by your separate billable hours or days, rounding each alternative quote up to a cent. The annual target display is rounded to the nearest cent; it isn't used to calculate quotes.

All pay, costs and schedules come from you. Fully billing the planned time isn't guaranteed. Expenses beyond your entered overhead, unbillable time, income tax, VAT, UIF, pensions, paid leave, sick pay, overtime, employment classification and minimum-wage rules aren't assessed. Invoice revenue and employee gross pay don't establish equal take-home outcomes.

Salary & hourly rate calculator

Your gross pay and work schedule

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