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Jobs & Careers > Jobs & Careers (Other) How to convert an annual salary to an hourly wage

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It's easy! To convert your annual salary into an hourly wage, just divide the salary by the number of hours worked in a year. Working for 40 hours a week, for example, comes out to 2080 hours over 52 weeks. It's that simple. With a salary of $40,000 a year, your calculation would look like this.

$40,000/2080 = $19.23/hour

Now here's a handy trick that makes it even easier. If there were only 50 weeks in a year, that equation would involve a nice, round number, since fifty 40-hour work weeks contain exactly 2,000 hours. Mathematically, this means that simply dividing the annual salary by 2...

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