Salary to Hourly Calculator UK — Convert Any Salary Instantly

Divide your annual salary by the number of working hours per year. For a standard UK working year (37.5 hours per week × 52 weeks = 1,950 hours): £30,000 ÷ 1,950 = £15.38 per hour. Our calculator does this instantly and also shows daily, weekly, and monthly rates.

A standard UK working year is 37.5 hours per week × 52 weeks = 1,950 hours. Full-time employees typically work 35–40 hours per week. Our calculator lets you enter your specific contracted hours for an accurate result.

£30,000 per year works out at approximately £15.38 per hour based on a 37.5-hour week. That is £115.38 per day, £576.92 per week, and £2,500 per month gross. Use our calculator for any salary.

£50,000 per year is approximately £25.64 per hour (37.5-hour week), £192.31 per day, £961.54 per week, and £4,166.67 per month. After income tax and NI, the take-home is around £37,000 annually — use our income tax calculator for the exact net figure.

From April 2025, the National Living Wage is £12.21 per hour for workers aged 21 and over. The National Minimum Wage is £10.00 per hour for ages 18–20 and £7.55 for under 18s and apprentices.

Divide the annual salary offer by your total annual working hours. For a 37.5-hour week: annual hours = 37.5 × 52 = 1,950. A £45,000 offer = £23.08 per hour. This is useful when comparing a salaried role to a freelance day rate or hourly contract — a £45,000 salary equates to roughly £184 per day, while a freelance contractor billing the same time would need to charge £300–£400/day to net a similar income after tax and unbillable time. Use the income tax calculator to see the take-home difference.

To convert hours and minutes into decimal hours, divide the minutes by 60 and add to the whole hours. For example, 7 hours 45 minutes = 7 + (45 ÷ 60) = 7.75 decimal hours. This matters when your shift is not a round number of hours or when accounting for break time. Most UK employers exclude unpaid break time from paid hours — if your shift is 8 hours but you take a 30-minute unpaid break, your paid decimal hours are 7.5. Enter your exact contracted hours into this calculator to get a precise hourly, daily, and weekly rate based on actual paid time.