Salary ↔ Hourly Converter
Turn a yearly salary into an hourly rate — or an hourly rate into a salary — using the 2,080-hour convention Canadian employers use. Then see your true wage once unpaid overtime is counted, plus per-day, per-week and per-paycheque figures.
Pay across common workweeks
How your hourly rate changes with hours worked — at the standard convention and after unpaid overtime.
Rate by workweek
The same salary spread over Canada's common full-time schedules. Your entered hours are highlighted.
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How this is calculated
The 2,080-hour convention
The standard salary-to-hourly formula is salary ÷ (52 × hours per week). At a 40-hour week that's 52 × 40 = 2,080 hours a year — the number most employers and payroll systems assume. A $85,000 salary works out to about $40.87/hour. Salaried employees are normally paid through their vacation, so paid vacation weeks don't change this divisor; they're shown here as context.
Your true effective hourly rate
Salaried roles often carry unpaid overtime. Your real wage is salary ÷ (52 × (hours + unpaid OT)). Those extra hours don't raise your pay, so every unpaid hour dilutes your effective rate: 5 unpaid hours a week turns a $40.87 sticker rate into roughly $36.32 — about 11% lower.
Hourly to salary
Going the other way, the convention figure is rate × hours per week × 52. But hourly workers are usually paid vacation separately as a percentage top-up rather than through paid time off, so we also show what you'd actually earn if you take unpaid weeks: rate × hours × (52 − vacation weeks).
Vacation pay: 4% and 6%
Under Ontario's Employment Standards Act, vacation pay is at least 4% of gross wages (two weeks) for under five years of service, rising to 6% (three weeks) at five years. Most provinces follow the same 4%/6% structure; Saskatchewan starts at 3 weeks (5.77%). The 4% figure is the "≈ 2 weeks" note shown on the hourly side.
Overtime in Ontario (and beyond)
Ontario pays overtime at 1.5× after 44 hours in a week. Thresholds vary: 40 hours in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 44 in Ontario, and daily thresholds (over 8 hours/day) in BC and Alberta. This tool converts a base rate — it does not add statutory overtime premiums to your paid hours.
Gross ≠ net
Every figure here is gross pay. Federal and provincial income tax, CPP/CPP2 and EI premiums all come off before you're paid. To see your take-home by province, open the income tax calculator — this page pre-fills your salary for you.
What this doesn't model
Statutory overtime premiums, shift differentials, bonuses, commission, benefits, employer pension matching, or the exact number of workdays in a given year (we use 260 = 5 days × 52 weeks for the per-day figure). It's a rate converter, not a payroll engine.