WageYardPay & Wage Guides
Twenty-two guides covering the conversions people actually search for: what a specific hourly rate pays per year (with taxes), what weekly and monthly pay adds up to, what $100,000 looks like per month, per week, and per biweekly check, how overtime really gets calculated, and how salaries translate back to hours.
Hourly rate → yearly, by rate
$15 an hour
$30,000/yr gross, ~$26,000 after est. tax. Part-time and OT tables included.
$20 an hour
$40,000/yr gross, ~$34,100 take-home. The four-figure-week benchmark.
$25 an hour
$50,000/yr gross, ~$42,100 take-home. Our most-read breakdown.
$25 an hour part time
20–35 h/week: $25,000–$43,750 a year, after tax.
$30 an hour
$60,000/yr gross, ~$50,100 take-home, plus a 50-week OT scenario.
$35 an hour
$70,000/yr gross, ~$58,200 take-home and cost-of-living context.
$40 an hour
$80,000/yr gross — where the salary-vs-hourly debate gets interesting.
$45 an hour
$90,000/yr gross with monthly take-home budgeting view.
$50 an hour
The $100,000 line, from both directions.
$60 an hour
$120,000/yr gross and the 22% marginal bracket.
Weekly & monthly conversions
$2,500 a month is how much a year?
$30,000 gross, ~$2,170/mo after tax — weekly, biweekly & hourly views, $2,000–$4,000 table.
How to budget biweekly pay
The 26-vs-12 problem, a 2026 payday calendar, and the two-envelope method.
$75,000 a year: how much an hour?
$36.06/h (2,080 h), $2,884.62 biweekly, OT at $54.09.
$200 a week is how much a year?
$10,400 gross ($10,000 at 50 wk), FICA-only after tax.
Hourly → annual
The reverse direction: rate to year, any schedule.
Annual → hourly
Salary (or annualized monthly pay) back to an hourly rate.
Monthly pay calculator
New monthly mode: annual = monthly × 12.
All monthly pages
37 exact amounts, $1,000–$10,000 a month, annualized with after-tax math.
All salary → hourly pages
19 exact salaries, $30,000–$120,000 a year, hourly at 2,080 & 2,000 h.
The $100,000 questions
How much is $100,000 a year?
Monthly, weekly, hourly — the full breakdown hub.
$100k: how much biweekly?
$3,846.15 gross / ~$3,165 net per check.
$100k after taxes in California
≈ $72,350 take-home vs. ≈ $79,000 in no-income-tax states.
Formulas & rules
Salary-to-hourly formula
Why the divisor (2,080 vs 2,000) decides the answer.
Overtime: time-and-a-half
Who gets it, how the blended rate works, what FLSA says.
Is overtime worth it after taxes?
Marginal-rate math: what each OT hour really nets at real wage rates.
Paystub doesn't match salary
Deductions, partial periods, pay calendars, and misclassification.
$100k: what per hour?
$48.08–$52.08 depending on your schedule.
Exact rate pages
Need a rate that isn't above? We publish exact annual math for 41 rates between $10.00 and $60.00 in $1.25 steps.