How much is your hourly pay in a year? Enter your rate, weekly hours and overtime rule. Annual pace is a gross-pay estimate before taxes and deductions, not a guaranteed salary or take-home amount.
The example changes current entries. Saved weeks are not changed.
Job 1
Enter your rate, weekly hours and overtime rule to estimate gross pay.
How to use
Add another job if needed; annual pace assumes 52 identical weeks.
Sunday hours count last in the week and pay 2×. Premiums do not stack.
Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Entry 2
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Entry 3
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Entry 4
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Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Entry 19
Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Entry 21
Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Entry 22
Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Cancelled or missed client hours?
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Cancelled or missed client hours?
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$60 × 8 jobs = $480 earned.
What did you put into the work? · Optional
Enter costs for these completed jobs once, across all entries. Extra hours can include prep, admin, travel, or unpaid training. Time affects the hourly equivalent; spending reduces earnings.
Completed work at the agreed pay, before taxes. This doesn’t confirm payment has arrived.
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Combined gross below. Overtime is calculated separately for each job.
Your week’s gross pay
$2,410
this week before taxes
$4,820biweekly
$10,443avg/month
$125,320annual pace
Predict my take-home · optional estimate
Use a previous paycheck from the same job. Enter the numbers, or scan a photo and confirm them.
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Crop to the current-pay summary first; cover names, addresses, SSNs and bank details. Photo scanning is disabled in this release. Manually entered paycheck figures stay in this session only and are not used for ads or job searches.
Estimated take-home for this paycheck
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Based on your previous paycheck. Assumes a similar tax-withholding percentage and the deductions you entered. Actual deposits and final taxes may differ. Planning estimate, not payroll or tax advice.
2026 U.S. sole-proprietor illustration. Enter yearly expectations; we won't assume this week repeats all year.
Other income excludes this freelance profit. Include your spouse's other ordinary income if filing jointly. The wages field is your own wages only; it adjusts the Social Security limit. This basic model does not support a spouse's separate freelance business.
Basic annual federal tax attributed to freelance profit
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Entered earnings after this federal reserve illustration
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Includes regular self-employment tax and the increase in ordinary federal income tax, with half the self-employment tax deducted. Excludes state/local taxes, tax credits, QBI and other special deductions, Additional Medicare Tax, AMT, and taxes already paid. This is not your final tax bill, take-home guarantee, or a quarterly payment recommendation. These exclusions can move the actual result in either direction.
Choose how much of your earnings after entered costs to reserve. This is your chosen amount, not a calculation of taxes owed.
Enter a percentage to see your reserve.
After your chosen reserve
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Before any other taxes or costs not entered. This percentage may not cover your tax obligations. A loss does not generate a predicted tax refund.
My weeks · save & compare
Optional. Saves the calculator above, not shift scenarios.
A midweek check isn’t saved automatically. Use only completed work for the period you’re checking; save your finished weekly totals when ready.
One entry per week ending and pay type; saving again updates it. Only weeks you explicitly save count. A saved $0 week counts; unsaved weeks never lower your average. Start date is your earliest saved week ending.
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Compared with the hours entered above, using the same overtime rule. You decide what the time is worth.
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$5,000 extra a year is about 2.6 months of typical U.S. rent, before taxes.
Illustration at the same hours and overtime—not an offer or guaranteed increase.
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$30 an hour is how much a year?
At 40 paid hours each week for 52 weeks, $30 an hour is $62,400 a year before taxes and deductions. That is $1,200 weekly, $2,400 over two identical weeks and $5,200 per average month. This example assumes no overtime premium and the same paid hours every week.
How to convert hourly pay to annual income
Hourly rate × paid hours per week × paid weeks per year = estimated annual gross pay. PayGuess shows annual pace using 52 identical weeks. Change your hours and overtime selection in the calculator to see how your own workweek affects that pace.
If you work 30 hours a week at $30, the 52-week pace is $46,800. If you work 40 hours for only 50 paid weeks, yearly gross is $60,000: $30 × 40 × 50. The displayed 52-week pace does not automatically subtract unpaid vacation, gaps between jobs or seasonal time off.
Annual pace is an estimate, not a promise
Your yearly earnings can change with lost shifts, extra shifts, holidays, unpaid leave and rate changes. An unusually busy overtime week repeated 52 times may overstate your usual earnings. Optional saved-week history shows an average of the weeks you actually save; missing weeks are not silently counted as zero.
Include overtime and multiple jobs
Select the overtime rule that applies to your work instead of assuming every hour pays the regular rate. Add another job if you have a second rate or payroll. Each entered job has its own calculation assumptions. PayGuess does not decide your legal overtime eligibility.
Get a better idea of take-home pay
The large result is gross pay before taxes. To explore what might reach your bank account, open Predict my take-home · optional estimate in the calculator. Enter the reference-paycheck figures and deductions it asks for, then review the assumptions beside the result.
That projection uses withholding observed on your previous paycheck. It is a planning estimate, not a full tax calculation or guaranteed deposit. Changes in income, withholding elections, benefits and deductions can change the amount you receive. Final taxes may also differ from paycheck withholding.
Why monthly and biweekly figures differ
Average monthly pay is annual pace divided by 12; it is not simply four weekly checks. Biweekly pay represents two identical weeks. Actual pay dates, payroll rules and how many checks arrive in a month can differ.