Enter your week's regular, overtime and double-time hours and see the gross — then what that week is worth biweekly, monthly and across a year.
Gross pay is the full amount earned before anything is withheld: regular hours × rate, plus overtime hours × 1.5 × rate, plus double-time hours × 2 × rate. The period conversions then follow the calendar honestly — a year holds 52 weeks, so biweekly pay is 2 weekly cheques (26 a year), semi-monthly is the annual figure divided by 24, and monthly is the annual figure divided by 12. That is why "monthly" is not simply 4 weekly cheques: 4 weeks is 28 days, shorter than any month but February.
If you need the hours themselves worked out from clock times first, start with the Time Card Calculator and bring its totals here. For take-home (after-tax) questions, remember this page is deliberately gross-only — deductions vary too much by state, filing status and benefits to estimate responsibly here.
The federal rule in one box: weekly hours and your rate in, regular hours, overtime hours at 1.5× and total gross pay out.
Free — try itYour overtime rate and overtime pay in one step — plus the part people forget: how much of it is the extra premium over straight time.
Free — try itA full two-week pay period on one card — but overtime is still scored week by week, exactly as the FLSA requires. Combined gross pay included.
Free — try itA whole month of shifts on one sheet, totalled for the 1st–15th and 16th–end semi-monthly pay periods, with overtime still scored per workweek.
Free — try itEverything you earn before deductions: regular pay plus overtime and double-time premiums, before income tax, Social Security, Medicare, benefits or garnishments come out. Your pay stub's largest number is the gross.
Because months are longer than 4 weeks. The correct conversion is weekly × 52 ÷ 12. Using ×4 understates monthly gross by about 8%.
Weekly: 52. Biweekly: 26 (with two months holding a third cheque). Semi-monthly: 24, always on the same two dates. Monthly: 12.
No — this is a gross-pay calculator by design. Take-home pay depends on federal and state withholding, filing status, pre-tax benefits and more, which a responsible estimate needs far more inputs to model.
Enter the week’s hours in three buckets — regular, overtime and double time — and the calculator prices each bucket at its multiplier (1×, 1.5×, 2×) and adds them up. It then scales that single week into the other common pay periods: doubled for biweekly, times 52 for a year, and the year divided by 24 or 12 for semi-monthly and monthly equivalents.
A week of 40 regular hours, 8 overtime hours and 2 double-time hours at $23.50/hour: regular pay 40 × $23.50 = $940.00; overtime 8 × $35.25 = $282.00; double time 2 × $47.00 = $94.00 — a weekly gross of $1,316.00. Scaled up: biweekly $2,632.00, semi-monthly $2,851.33, monthly $5,702.67, and annual $68,432.00. Those are the exact figures in the calculator’s table for these inputs.
Because the same annual pay is divided differently: semi-monthly means 24 paydays a year, biweekly means 26. Fewer, larger cheques — in the example, $2,851.33 semi-monthly against $2,632.00 biweekly, from the same $68,432 year.
Yes — 26 biweekly periods cover 364 days, so depending on which weekday payday falls, some years fit a 27th payday. This calculator uses the standard 52-week year throughout, so treat its annual figure as the normal-year equivalent rather than a promise about a specific calendar year.
Only as an illustration. Every equivalent on this page assumes the week you typed repeats unchanged for 52 weeks. If your hours vary, run the page for a typical week to get a fair picture, and expect the real year to land above or below it.
Double time (2×) is owed under some state daily rules — California, for example, pays 2× after 12 hours in a day — and under some employer policies and union contracts for Sundays or holidays. Enter in this bucket only the hours that will actually be paid at 2×; what qualifies is set by the law that applies to you and your employer’s policy.
Yes — enter each offer’s typical week (its usual regular and overtime hours at its rate) and compare the weekly and annual equivalents side by side. Just remember both figures are gross: taxes, benefits and commuting costs can change which offer is really better.
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