How to convert salary to hourly
Divide your annual salary by the weeks you work to get weekly pay, then by your weekly hours. For example, £35,000 ÷ 52 ÷ 37.5 ≈ £17.95 an hour. A typical UK full-time week is 35–40 hours.
Gross, before tax
This is your gross rate before Income Tax and National Insurance. To see your real take-home, use our take-home pay calculator.
Checking against the minimum wage
Converting to an hourly figure is the quickest way to check you’re above the National Minimum / Living Wage. From April 2025 the National Living Wage (age 21+) is £12.21 an hour, so a 37.5-hour week at 52 weeks works out at roughly £23,800 a year as a floor. If your hourly figure falls below your age band’s rate, that’s worth raising with your employer.
Why holiday weeks matter
Salaried staff are paid across all 52 weeks including paid annual leave, so leave “weeks per year” at 52 for a normal contract. Lower it only to model a genuinely unpaid break or term-time-only work — fewer paid weeks raises the effective hourly rate for the weeks you actually work.