Hourly & Salary Pay Calculator (Before & After Tax)

We subtract FICA (Social Security plus Medicare, a flat 7.65% of wages) and approximate federal income tax as 12% of everything above a $16,100 standard deduction, which is the typical figure reported for recent single-filer returns. Real returns use graduated brackets, credits, and payroll elections, so treat this as a rough estimate — not tax advice — and as a floor-leaning figure for lower incomes and a slightly crude one near the top of the 12% bracket.

50 weeks equals 2,000 hours at 40 hours a week — the cleanest match for someone with two weeks of unpaid PTO, or a salaried person mentally budgeting around real working weeks. Use 52 if you are paid every week of the year (which splits into 26 biweekly paychecks), or lower numbers for seasonal work.

It assumes 5 overtime hours per week paid at time-and-a-half (1.5× your base rate), which is the standard US rule for non-exempt hourly employees under the FLSA. The overtime pay itself is taxed at your marginal rate, so the "extra pay" row shows net-after-estimate, not the gross premium.

Use hourly if you clock hours and want the annual equivalent. Use salary mode if you know the yearly number and want to see what it secretly pays per hour — the math simply divides your salary by (hours per week × weeks per year), so switching the hours or weeks inputs changes your implied hourly rate. Use monthly if you only know your per-month pay: annual = monthly × 12 (assumes 12 equal months), then the same divisor logic gives your implied hourly.

Multiply by 12: $2,500 a month is $30,000 a year, $3,000 is $36,000. This assumes every month is equal, which is exactly how the annual figure is defined — though if you're actually paid biweekly (26 checks), the cash lands unevenly across calendar months. Try it deep-linked: /calculator/#monthly=2500.

No. Nine states levy no personal income tax at all, and the rest range from low single digits up to the high single digits, so including a single generic state rate would mislead more often than help. Add your state's rate on top if you need a closer guess.

Tap one of the part-time quick-picks (20, 25, 30, 35 hours) or type your own hours per week — every row re-computes instantly. At $25 an hour, 20 hours a week is $25,000 a year gross and roughly $22,020 after our tax estimate; the part-time $25 guide has the full 20–35 hour tables.

The take-home estimate for one paycheck, not one week: gross = annual pay ÷ 26, minus per-check FICA and estimated federal tax. A $100,000 salary shows $3,846.15 gross and roughly $3,165 net per check. Deep link to it with /calculator/#salary=100000&mode=salary&biweekly=1, or see the $100k biweekly guide.