Pay Frequency Converter

Compare hourly, weekly, fortnightly, twice-monthly, monthly, and annual gross pay using your own work schedule.

Pay Frequency Converter

Gross pay amount

Pay frequency

Hours per week

Paid weeks per year

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Guide updated 6 October 2026

Compare gross pay across hourly, weekly, fortnightly, twice-monthly, monthly and annual periods. Enter one amount, choose its frequency, and the converter expresses the same estimated annual total in every supported period. This helps you compare offers or build a budget using consistent assumptions.

How to convert your pay frequency

Enter your gross amount and select the period it covers.
Set hours per week and weeks per year. These values affect hourly, weekly and fortnightly conversions.
Select Calculate and read the equivalent amount for each period.
Check your inputs against the hours and paid weeks used in your contract.

Use one currency throughout. The converter changes the time period, not the currency or purchasing power of the amount.

The annualization formula behind the results

First, the tool multiplies the input by the number of equivalent periods in a year. It then divides that annual total by each output factor.

Input period	Annual factor
Hourly	Hours per week × weeks per year
Weekly	Weeks per year
Fortnightly / every two weeks	Weeks per year ÷ 2
Twice monthly	24
Monthly	12
Annual	1

This is an annual-equivalent comparison, not an actual payroll calendar. Monthly and twice-monthly factors stay at 12 and 24 when you change weeks per year.

Fortnightly and twice monthly are not the same

Fortnightly pay arrives every two weeks. With a 52-week assumption, that means 26 periods. Twice-monthly pay means two periods in each of twelve months, or 24. The same annual amount therefore produces different payment amounts.

With an annual total of 62,400, the fortnightly equivalent is 2,400 and the twice-monthly equivalent is 2,600. Neither result says which dates your employer will pay you.

Example: hourly pay to monthly and annual pay

Suppose your rate is 25 per hour, your schedule is 40 hours per week and you use 52 weeks. Annual-equivalent pay is 25 × 40 × 52 = 52,000. The monthly equivalent is 52,000 ÷ 12 = 4,333.33.

At 48 paid weeks with the same rate and hours, the annual equivalent becomes 48,000 and the monthly equivalent becomes 4,000. Change the assumptions to reflect unpaid weeks rather than assuming every calendar week produces earnings.

Comparing a job offer or freelance rate

Compare annual totals using the same hours and weeks for each offer. A higher hourly figure can still produce a lower annual total when hours are fewer. Keep bonuses, overtime, paid leave, pension contributions and other benefits in a separate comparison because the tool does not add them.

For a freelance rate, distinguish billable hours from time spent on administration or finding clients. Enter the billable schedule you intend to compare; the tool does not estimate utilization or business expenses.

Why the result differs from your payslip

These are gross equivalents. Tax, deductions, overtime, benefit contributions and payroll rounding can change the amount you receive. An actual payroll year may also contain a different number of dated payments from the simple yearly factors used here.

Do not multiply a weekly amount by four to estimate a month: four weeks times twelve months covers only 48 weeks. Annualizing first avoids that shortcut’s mismatch.