All pay and time calculators

Your payslip shows a rate. It rarely shows what you really earn per hour of your life spent on work. These seven calculators do the arithmetic your employer's figures leave out — free, instant, and nothing stored.

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• True hourly wage Your real rate once unpaid commute, breaks and work prep are counted as the hours they are.
• Hourly to salary (and back) Convert an hourly rate into daily, weekly, monthly and annual pay — or an annual salary into an hourly rate.
• Pro rata salary What a full-time salary comes to on part-time hours, including your pro rata holiday entitlement.
• Overtime pay Time and a half, double time or any multiplier — and what overtime does to your effective hourly rate.
• Commute cost The annual price of getting to work, in fuel, fares, parking and hours of your life.
• Pay rise The percentage, the monthly difference, and whether it is a real rise once inflation is taken off.
• Cost in work hours Price any purchase in the currency that matters: how many hours of your actual working time it costs.

Why the stated rate is not the real one

A job advertised at a given salary quietly assumes a set of hours you are not paid for. The commute is the obvious one. In England the average round trip runs to about an hour a day, and none of it is paid. Add an unpaid lunch break, add the time spent specifically getting ready for work, and a nominal 40-hour week can easily become a 50-hour commitment.

Divide the same pay by those larger hours and the rate drops. That lower number is what your time is genuinely being exchanged for, and it is the number worth comparing when you weigh up one job against another — a better-paying role an hour further away is often the worse deal.

The same logic runs through every calculator here. Work out the real denominator, then everything downstream — a pay rise, an overtime shift, the price of a car — can be measured in something more honest than the headline figure.

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