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Free Salary & Pay Calculators

Free, private calculators for every pay question — plan a raise, convert between salary and hourly, check a raise against inflation, or compare two job offers. Clear formulas, nothing stored, instant results.

Plan a raise

Convert pay

Make a decision

Not sure which to use? Start with the Salary Increase Calculator for a raise you already know, or Raise Percentage if you have your old and new pay. See how we calculate. Your inputs stay private.

Which calculator should you use?

Almost everyone arrives with one of five questions. Match yours to the right tool rather than working through all six:

What these calculators will not tell you

They all report gross pay — the figure before tax, insurance, and retirement contributions come out. None of them knows your filing status, your state, your benefit elections, or how your employer runs payroll, so none of them can produce your exact take-home pay. Where a tool does estimate an after-deduction amount, it multiplies your gross change by one effective rate that you type in yourself, and the result is labelled as an estimate rather than take-home pay.

Every formula is written out in plain arithmetic on our methodology page, and the longer explanations behind each tool live in the guides section.

Quick answers to specific pay questions

Each of these answers one question directly, with the arithmetic shown and a calculator on the page if your numbers differ.

Raise amounts

Hourly to yearly

Yearly to hourly

Common questions

How many paychecks are in a year?

Fifty-two if you are paid weekly, 26 every two weeks, 24 semimonthly, and 12 monthly. Biweekly and semimonthly are easy to confuse: biweekly means every second Friday, which produces 26 cheques and two months a year with three of them. Semimonthly means twice a month on fixed dates, which is always 24.

Do you store the salary I type in?

No. Every calculation runs in your browser, and nothing you type is sent to our server or written to a database. If you copy a share link, the values ride after the # symbol in the URL, which browsers do not transmit to the server — but anyone you send that link to can read them.

Why is the raise on my payslip smaller than the calculator says?

Because the calculator shows gross pay and your payslip shows what is left after deductions. A raise is also often taxed at your marginal rate, which is higher than the average rate applied to your existing income, so the extra money is deducted more heavily than the rest of your pay.

Are these calculators free?

Yes. There is no sign-up, no paywall, and no limit on how many times you use them.