How many working hours are in a year?

At 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, 2,080 hours. At 37.5 hours, 1,950. Those figures count paid vacation and statutory holidays as paid time, which is how salaries are usually quoted. If your time off is unpaid, use fewer weeks: 50 weeks at 40 hours is 2,000 hours.

Is full time 37.5 or 40 hours a week?

Both are common in Canada. Office and public-sector jobs often use 37.5 hours, which is 7.5 hours a day with an unpaid lunch. Trades, retail and manufacturing more often use 40. The same salary works out to a higher hourly rate at 37.5 hours, which is why the calculator shows the 37.5-hour equivalent when you convert a salary.

What is $25 an hour as a yearly salary?

$52,000 a year at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, or $48,750 at 37.5 hours. That is before income tax, CPP and EI. Overtime, shift premiums and vacation pay paid on top would add to it.

Is vacation pay included in the annual figure?

If you enter 52 weeks, yes: the calculation assumes you are paid every week of the year, whether working or on vacation. Hourly workers often receive vacation pay as a percentage added to each cheque instead. In that case enter the weeks you actually work and add the vacation pay separately, or use the vacation pay calculator.

How is overtime pay calculated?

Employment standards in every province set a weekly, and sometimes daily, threshold above which hours must be paid at a premium, usually time and a half. The threshold differs by province and by job, so check your province's rules. Some employers pay double time beyond a second threshold. Enter the overtime hours you usually work and the multiplier, and the calculator adds it to the yearly total and shows its share.

Do salaried employees get overtime?

Often, yes. Being paid a salary does not by itself remove the right to overtime. Managers, supervisors and certain professions are exempt under provincial rules, but many salaried staff are still entitled to it. Your hourly rate for overtime is the salary divided by your regular hours, which this calculator shows.

Does the minimum wage apply to everyone?

The general rate applies to most employees. Several provinces have lower rates for students under 18, liquor servers, homeworkers or hunting and fishing guides, and some jobs such as farm work are exempt. Federally regulated employers such as banks and airlines follow the federal rate when it is higher than the provincial one.

What is a good hourly wage in Canada?

That depends on where you live and the job, so the calculator does not judge it. A useful yardstick is the gap above minimum wage that it shows, and the take-home pay calculator, which turns the yearly figure into what actually lands in your account after tax in your province.

Hourly to Salary Calculator (Canada, 2026)

Turn an hourly wage into a yearly salary, or a salary into an hourly rate, before tax. Set your hours a week and weeks paid, add regular overtime, and see the pay by year, month, two weeks, week and day. The calculator also checks your wage against the minimum wage in your province today and the next announced increase.

A year of work pays$52,000$25.00 an hour × 40 hours × 52 weeks. Before tax. After tax, see the take-home pay calculator.

Pay before tax
Per year	$52,000.00
Per month	$4,333.33
Twice a month (24 cheques)	$2,166.67
Every two weeks (26 cheques)	$2,000.00
Per week	$1,000.00
Per day (5-day week)	$200.00
Per hour	$25.00
Paid hours in the year	2,080 hours

Minimum wage check. The general minimum wage for Ontario is $17.95 an hour, in force since October 1, 2026. Your $25.00 is $7.05 an hour (39%) above it. No further increase has been announced.

Show the math

Annual pay = hourly rate × hours per week × weeks paid, plus overtime hours × rate × multiplier × weeks. Salary to hourly is the reverse: salary ÷ (hours × weeks). A month is a twelfth of the year and a semi-monthly cheque a twenty-fourth. A week is the pay for one paid week and a bi-weekly cheque is two of them. A day is a fifth of a week. The minimum wage comes from the Government of Canada's minimum wage database as of October 3, 2026, using the rate whose effective date is on or before today. Nothing here is after tax.

How this calculator works

Hourly to salary multiplies three numbers: your hourly rate, the hours you work in a week, and the weeks you are paid in a year. At $25.00 an hour, 40 hours a week and 52 weeks, that is $52,000. Regular overtime is added on top at your rate times the multiplier, usually 1.5.

Salary to hourly runs the same sum backwards. The salary is divided by the hours in a year (hours a week times weeks paid). Because a 37.5-hour week has fewer hours than a 40-hour week, the same salary gives a higher hourly rate at 37.5 hours. The calculator shows both so you can compare a job offer quoted one way against a job quoted the other.

Pay periods. A month is one twelfth of the year. A semi-monthly cheque is one twenty-fourth. A weekly figure is the pay for one paid week, and a bi-weekly cheque is two of them. A day is a fifth of a week. When you are paid for 52 weeks every line agrees. When some weeks are unpaid, the weekly and bi-weekly lines show what a working week pays, and the yearly line shows the smaller annual total.

Weeks paid. Most employees are paid 52 weeks a year. Vacation is paid time, and statutory holidays are paid days. Enter fewer weeks only if your time off is unpaid, which happens with some contract, seasonal and casual work. Hourly workers who receive vacation pay as a percentage on each cheque should treat that as extra on top of the figure here.

The minimum wage check looks up the general adult minimum wage in force today for the province or territory you pick, from the Government of Canada’s minimum wage database. It shows how far your rate sits above or below it, and the next announced increase with its date where one has been published. Rates typically change on April 1 or October 1.

Everything here is before tax. What you keep depends on your province, and the take-home pay calculator does that part.

Hourly wage to yearly salary chart

Common hourly wages turned into yearly, monthly and bi-weekly pay, before tax, for 52 paid weeks. The first columns use a 40-hour week (2,080 hours a year). The last column uses a 37.5-hour week (1,950 hours).

Hourly wage	Per year, 40 hours	Per month, 40 hours	Every two weeks, 40 hours	Per year, 37.5 hours
$17.00 an hour	$35,360	$2,947	$1,360	$33,150
$18.00 an hour	$37,440	$3,120	$1,440	$35,100
$19.00 an hour	$39,520	$3,293	$1,520	$37,050
$20.00 an hour	$41,600	$3,467	$1,600	$39,000
$21.00 an hour	$43,680	$3,640	$1,680	$40,950
$22.00 an hour	$45,760	$3,813	$1,760	$42,900
$23.00 an hour	$47,840	$3,987	$1,840	$44,850
$24.00 an hour	$49,920	$4,160	$1,920	$46,800
$25.00 an hour	$52,000	$4,333	$2,000	$48,750
$26.00 an hour	$54,080	$4,507	$2,080	$50,700
$27.00 an hour	$56,160	$4,680	$2,160	$52,650
$28.00 an hour	$58,240	$4,853	$2,240	$54,600
$29.00 an hour	$60,320	$5,027	$2,320	$56,550
$30.00 an hour	$62,400	$5,200	$2,400	$58,500
$32.00 an hour	$66,560	$5,547	$2,560	$62,400
$35.00 an hour	$72,800	$6,067	$2,800	$68,250
$38.00 an hour	$79,040	$6,587	$3,040	$74,100
$40.00 an hour	$83,200	$6,933	$3,200	$78,000
$45.00 an hour	$93,600	$7,800	$3,600	$87,750
$50.00 an hour	$104,000	$8,667	$4,000	$97,500
$55.00 an hour	$114,400	$9,533	$4,400	$107,250
$60.00 an hour	$124,800	$10,400	$4,800	$117,000

A quick rule of thumb: at 40 hours a week, double the hourly wage and add three zeros for the yearly salary. $30.00 an hour is about $60,000 a year. The exact figure is $62,400. For a rate that is not in the chart, or with overtime, use the calculator above.

Minimum wage by province and territory

General adult rates in force on October 3, 2026, with the next announced increase where a government has published one.

Jurisdiction	Rate now	In force since	Next announced
Alberta	$15.00	June 26, 2019	none
British Columbia	$18.25	June 1, 2026	none
Manitoba	$16.40	October 1, 2026	none
New Brunswick	$15.90	April 1, 2026	none
Newfoundland and Labrador	$16.35	April 1, 2026	none
Northwest Territories	$17.20	September 1, 2026	none
Nova Scotia	$17.00	October 1, 2026	none
Nunavut	$20.17	September 1, 2026	none
Ontario	$17.95	October 1, 2026	none
Prince Edward Island	$17.30	October 1, 2026	$17.60 on April 1, 2027
Quebec	$16.60	May 1, 2026	none
Saskatchewan	$15.35	October 1, 2025	none
Yukon	$18.51	April 1, 2026	none
Federally regulated	$18.15	April 1, 2026	none

The federal rate applies to employees of federally regulated employers such as banks, airlines, railways, telecoms and interprovincial trucking, unless the provincial rate is higher.

Worked example: $25 an hour with 5 hours of overtime a week

Line	Amount
Regular pay: $25.00 × 40 hours × 52 weeks	$52,000.00
Overtime: $25.00 × 1.5 × 5 hours × 52 weeks	$9,750.00
Per year	$61,750.00
Per month	$5,145.83
Every two weeks	$2,375.00
Per week	$1,187.50
Per day	$237.50
Overtime share of pay	16%

Going the other way, a $60,000 salary at 37.5 hours a week over 52 weeks is $30.77 an hour. The same salary at 40 hours is $28.85.

Assumptions

Five working days in a week, so the daily figure is a fifth of the weekly one.
Overtime is applied to the weekly hours you enter, every paid week, at one multiplier. Daily overtime thresholds, double time and averaging agreements are not modelled.
In salary mode the salary is taken as the full year’s pay and any overtime fields are ignored.
The minimum wage is the general adult rate. Student, liquor server and other special rates are not checked.
Nothing is deducted. Income tax, CPP, EI and benefits are left to the take-home pay calculator.

Common questions

Frequently asked questions

How many working hours are in a year?: At 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, 2,080 hours. At 37.5 hours, 1,950. Those figures count paid vacation and statutory holidays as paid time, which is how salaries are usually quoted. If your time off is unpaid, use fewer weeks: 50 weeks at 40 hours is 2,000 hours.
Is full time 37.5 or 40 hours a week?: Both are common in Canada. Office and public-sector jobs often use 37.5 hours, which is 7.5 hours a day with an unpaid lunch. Trades, retail and manufacturing more often use 40. The same salary works out to a higher hourly rate at 37.5 hours, which is why the calculator shows the 37.5-hour equivalent when you convert a salary.
What is $25 an hour as a yearly salary?: $52,000 a year at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, or $48,750 at 37.5 hours. That is before income tax, CPP and EI. Overtime, shift premiums and vacation pay paid on top would add to it.
Is vacation pay included in the annual figure?: If you enter 52 weeks, yes: the calculation assumes you are paid every week of the year, whether working or on vacation. Hourly workers often receive vacation pay as a percentage added to each cheque instead. In that case enter the weeks you actually work and add the vacation pay separately, or use the vacation pay calculator.
How is overtime pay calculated?: Employment standards in every province set a weekly, and sometimes daily, threshold above which hours must be paid at a premium, usually time and a half. The threshold differs by province and by job, so check your province's rules. Some employers pay double time beyond a second threshold. Enter the overtime hours you usually work and the multiplier, and the calculator adds it to the yearly total and shows its share.
Do salaried employees get overtime?: Often, yes. Being paid a salary does not by itself remove the right to overtime. Managers, supervisors and certain professions are exempt under provincial rules, but many salaried staff are still entitled to it. Your hourly rate for overtime is the salary divided by your regular hours, which this calculator shows.
Does the minimum wage apply to everyone?: The general rate applies to most employees. Several provinces have lower rates for students under 18, liquor servers, homeworkers or hunting and fishing guides, and some jobs such as farm work are exempt. Federally regulated employers such as banks and airlines follow the federal rate when it is higher than the provincial one.
What is a good hourly wage in Canada?: That depends on where you live and the job, so the calculator does not judge it. A useful yardstick is the gap above minimum wage that it shows, and the take-home pay calculator, which turns the yearly figure into what actually lands in your account after tax in your province.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these primary sources. Data last verified September 7, 2026.

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