Convert an hourly or contract rate into an annual figure and back again — and, crucially, see the contract rate you would need to actually match an employee salary once you add the freelancer uplift for tax, benefits and unpaid time. Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded.
It is one of the most common questions when you go freelance, or weigh a contract against a job offer — and the naive answer is misleading. Dividing a salary by 2,080 hours, or multiplying an hourly rate by 2,080, ignores the things an employer quietly pays for: your tax contributions, benefits, paid holiday and sick days, equipment, and all the hours you work that are not billable. A contract rate has to cover those itself.
This calculator converts cleanly in both directions, then adds the part that matters to freelancers: enter an uplift percentage and it estimates the contract hourly rate that genuinely matches a given employee salary — so you can compare like with like.
Rate times your hours per week times weeks worked per year, with monthly and weekly figures.
Turn an annual salary into the equivalent hourly rate for the hours you actually work.
Add an uplift for the costs an employer covers, to find the matching contract rate.
Use your true billable hours and working weeks, not a flat 40 × 52.
Compare in the currency you actually bill or earn in.
Runs in your browser with zero network requests. Nothing is uploaded.
This converter is the quick "are these comparable?" check. When you are ready to set your actual price from an income goal — accounting for expenses and a tax set-aside — use the freelance rate calculator. Then track the billable hours you work and invoice them. All free and offline.
Part of a set of offline, no-subscription tools for the whole freelance workflow:
See what a contract rate is really worth next to a salary. Free, no account, nothing uploaded.