Gross Pay Calculator
Calculate gross pay for hourly, salaried, or daily workers, including overtime, across weekly, biweekly, or monthly pay periods.
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How to use this calculator
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Select your pay type: hourly, salary, or daily rate.
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Enter the applicable rate (hourly wage, annual salary, or daily rate).
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Enter regular hours and any overtime hours for the pay period, plus the overtime multiplier (default 1.5×).
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Select your pay period — the calculator shows gross pay for that period and annualized.
Frequently asked questions
What formulas does this tool use for gross pay?
This tool uses, for hourly pay, regular pay = rate × regular hours and overtime pay = rate × multiplier × overtime hours. For salary, regular pay = annual salary ÷ periods per year. For daily pay, regular pay = daily rate × days in the period. Gross pay is regular plus overtime, and the annualized figure is that total times 52, 26 or 12.
How are the pay periods defined?
Weekly is 52 periods a year, biweekly 26 and monthly 12. Daily-rate pay assumes 5, 10 and 21.67 working days for those periods. These are fixed assumptions in the tool; they do not look at the calendar, so a month with 23 working days is still treated as 21.67.
Where does the hourly rate for a salaried worker’s overtime come from?
The tool divides the period salary by the regular hours you enter for that period. A 78,000 salary paid biweekly is 3,000.00 a period, and over 80 regular hours that is 37.50 an hour; six overtime hours at 1.5× then add 337.50. A different hours figure gives a different overtime rate.
How is a daily rate turned into an hourly rate?
Period pay from the daily rate is divided by the regular hours entered for the period. At 200 a day, weekly, over 40 hours, the rate is 1,000.00 ÷ 40 = 25.00 an hour. If regular hours are zero, the hourly line shows n/a and overtime pay is 0.00, because there is nothing to derive a rate from.
What if the overtime multiplier is zero?
Then overtime pay is 0.00, even when overtime hours are entered. The 1.5 in the box is only a starting value, and the tool respects whatever number you leave in it. A multiplier of 1 pays overtime hours at the plain rate.
Does the tool decide which hours are overtime?
No. It has no weekly threshold; you split the hours into regular and overtime yourself. Hours are not checked against any limit, and for monthly periods you need to enter the regular hours for the month, not the 40 that is in the box at the start.
Is the result before or after deductions?
Before. Gross pay here means rate-based earnings, with no tax, social contributions, pension, benefits or other withholding subtracted. How much is actually withheld depends on location, filing status and employer, so use a take-home tool for that stage.
What is left out?
Bonuses, commissions, tiered overtime rates, shift allowances, unpaid breaks and employer-paid extras are not modelled, and the annualized figure assumes every period matches the one you entered. Overtime is one multiplier applied to every overtime hour.
Gross pay from hourly, salaried and daily rates
Three ways to arrive at the same kind of number
Hourly, salaried and daily workers are paid on different bases, but each calculation ends as regular pay plus overtime pay for one period. The tool then multiplies by the number of periods in a year to give an annualized figure. Pay type determines where the hourly rate comes from: it is typed in, derived from salary and hours, or derived from the daily rate and hours.
Worked examples for each pay type
An hourly worker at 25 an hour with 40 regular and 5 overtime hours at 1.5× earns 1,000.00 plus 187.50, or 1,187.50 for the week. A 78,000 salary paid biweekly, with 80 regular and 6 overtime hours, gives a base of 3,000.00, an effective rate of 37.50 and 337.50 of overtime, for 3,337.50. At 18 an hour over a month of 160 regular and 10 overtime hours at 2×, the total is 3,240.00. Each was run through the calculator.
Four set-ups across pay periods
The table compares three pay types and two period lengths, with the annualized column showing what the period total becomes over a year. The hourly weekly and daily weekly rows land on the same numbers because a 200 daily rate over a 40-hour week is the same 25 an hour. The monthly row annualizes with 12 periods, not 52.
| Set-up | Regular pay | Overtime pay | Period total | Annualized |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly 25, weekly, 40 + 5 hrs at 1.5× | 1,000.00 | 187.50 | 1,187.50 | 61,750.00 |
| Salary 78,000, biweekly, 80 + 6 hrs at 1.5× | 3,000.00 | 337.50 | 3,337.50 | 86,775.00 |
| Daily 200, weekly, 40 + 5 hrs at 1.5× | 1,000.00 | 187.50 | 1,187.50 | 61,750.00 |
| Hourly 18, monthly, 160 + 10 hrs at 2× | 2,880.00 | 360.00 | 3,240.00 | 38,880.00 |
Why the hours field matters for salaried pay
For salaried and daily workers, regular hours are the divisor that sets the overtime rate. The same 3,000.00 biweekly salary produces a lower hourly rate over 90 hours than over 80, and overtime pay shrinks with it. The tool does not know your contracted hours, so enter the figure that your employer uses for the period.
Where gross pay stops
The totals are what the rate and hours produce before anything is withheld. Annualizing a single period is an extrapolation: it repeats that period 52, 26 or 12 times, so a one-off overtime week will inflate the yearly line. A multiplier of 0 or zero overtime hours removes overtime pay entirely. The pay-period label in the results simply repeats your selection, so check it matches the hours you typed.
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