Turn an Indian annual or monthly salary into an exact hourly rate in rupees. Set your own hours and days per week, pick the working days or the calendar days basis, and see the hours your salary is actually being divided by. Every figure is gross, before provident fund and tax, so for the payslip view use the in-hand salary calculator, and to go the other way start at the hourly to salary calculator. No sign-up, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
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This salary to hourly calculator answers one question in rupees: what is an hour of your time worth. Type an annual package or a monthly salary, set the hours and days you actually work in a week, and it returns your gross hourly rate along with the pay per day, per week, per month and per year that go with it. Converting a monthly salary to hourly pay is the common case in India, where almost every offer is quoted per month, and the tool handles that by turning the monthly figure into a yearly one before it divides anything.
Two calculation bases are offered because India genuinely uses two. The working days basis divides a year of salary by 52 weeks of your hours, which is the model behind the familiar 2,080 hour year and the one most freelancers and salaried employees want. The calendar days basis prices a month at 30 days, which is the convention Indian payroll uses for loss of pay, and it returns a lower rate on the same salary. The tool shows which divisor it used rather than hiding it. Every number here is gross, before provident fund, professional tax and income tax, so for the take-home view continue to the in-hand salary calculator or the take-home salary calculator. If you already know your hourly rate and want the annual package instead, the hourly to salary calculator runs the conversion the other way. Everything on this page sits inside the wider set of salary calculators for India.
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Gross rupees, 40 hours across 5 days a week, both bases side by side. Every figure below was produced by the calculator on this page, not written by hand.
| Annual Salary | Monthly | Hourly, Working Days | Hourly, Calendar Days | Per Working Day |
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| ₹3,00,000 | 25,000 | 144.23 | 104.17 | 1,153.85 |
| ₹6,00,000 | 50,000 | 288.46 | 208.33 | 2,307.69 |
| ₹10,00,000 | 83,333 | 480.77 | 347.22 | 3,846.15 |
| ₹12,00,000 | 1,00,000 | 576.92 | 416.67 | 4,615.38 |
| ₹18,00,000 | 1,50,000 | 865.38 | 625.00 | 6,923.08 |
| ₹24,00,000 | 2,00,000 | 1,153.85 | 833.33 | 9,230.77 |
Two things in that table are worth sitting with. The first is that the two bases disagree by about 28 percent on every row, and neither is wrong: the working days column divides by 2,080 hours a year, the calendar days column divides by 2,880, because it spreads a month's pay across 30 days rather than across the days you work. Ask your employer or your client which basis they mean before you quote a number. The second is that the per working day column is simply the hourly rate held for eight hours, so a person on ₹10,00,000 earns ₹3,846.15 for a normal day and ₹480.77 for an hour of it. All of this is before deductions. Run the same salary through the in-hand salary calculator to see what actually reaches the bank, or the monthly salary calculator if the monthly column is the one you came for.
A salary to hourly calculator exists because a salary hides the price of your time. An offer of twelve lakh a year tells you nothing about whether the forty five hour weeks are worth it, and it gives you no number at all to quote a client with. Dividing salary by hours turns an annual abstraction into a rate you can compare, negotiate and bill against.
The tool is built for the person holding one salary figure who wants the hourly equivalent without first working out how many hours a year contains. It is also built for the person who already knows the arithmetic and wants it done on their own hours and days rather than on a hardcoded assumption. Both paths end at the same place: a gross rate per hour, with the pay per day, per week, per month and per year beside it, and the hours divisor shown rather than hidden.
What it is not is a tax calculator or a payslip. It divides gross salary by hours and stops there. Employee provident fund, professional tax and income tax all reduce what an hour is actually worth to you, and none of them are computed here. If that is the number you want, the take-home salary calculator and the in-hand salary calculator are the right pages, and the provident fund calculator shows what the EPF slice becomes over a career.
There is no single Indian formula, and pretending otherwise is how these calculators go wrong. There are two conventions, they answer slightly different questions, and they produce different numbers on the same salary. This page implements both and tells you which one it used.
Written out, the working days formula is: hourly rate equals annual salary divided by 52 multiplied by hours per week. On a salary of ₹10,00,000 at 40 hours a week that is ₹10,00,000 divided by 2,080, which is ₹480.77 an hour. The calendar days formula is: hourly rate equals monthly salary divided by 30, then divided by hours per week divided by days per week. On the same salary, ₹83,333 a month divided by 30 is ₹2,777.78 a day, and a day holding 8 hours makes an hour worth ₹347.22. The gap between ₹480.77 and ₹347.22 is not an error in either, it is the two conventions disagreeing about what a paid day is.
If your hours are not 40, the divisor moves with them and so does the answer. On ₹10,00,000 a year the working days rate is ₹480.77 at 40 hours a week, ₹427.35 at 45 hours across 2,340 annual hours, and ₹400.64 at 48 hours across 2,496. A longer week does not raise your hourly rate, it lowers it, which is the single most useful thing an hourly conversion tells a salaried person. To see what a raise would do to the same rate, work out the new salary with the salary increment calculator first and bring it back here.
People search for the difference between salary and wages constantly, and in Indian usage the distinction is real rather than academic. A salary is a fixed sum for a period, usually a month, and it does not move with the hours you put in. Wages are paid for time or output actually delivered, so they rise and fall with attendance. An hourly rate is the unit price underneath either of them: a salaried person has one whether or not anybody states it, and this calculator is how you find out what it is.
The practical consequence is who bears the risk of a light month. On a salary, a short month costs you nothing and a heavy month earns you nothing extra, which is exactly why converting to an hourly rate is illuminating when the heavy months stop being occasional. On wages, the arithmetic is already hourly or daily and the risk sits with you. India's four labour codes came into force on 21 November 2025 and replaced 29 central Acts, including the Factories Act 1948 and the Minimum Wages Act 1948, so the statutory language a payslip refers to has changed even where the money has not.
Overtime is where the hourly rate stops being informational and starts being money. Under section 14 of the Code on Wages 2019, an employee whose minimum rate of wages is fixed under the Code and who works beyond a normal working day is entitled to overtime at not less than twice the normal rate of wages. You can read the provision in the official text of the Code on Wages 2019 published on India Code. Two cautions before you multiply anything by two. The hours that trigger overtime are set by the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code 2020 and the central or state rules that apply to your establishment, and many states are still notifying theirs. And the statutory base is the ordinary or normal rate of wages, which is a defined term, not the gross hourly figure this page returns. For the overtime arithmetic itself, use the overtime pay calculator, which is the page in this silo that owns it.
Gross rupees on the working days basis, 40 hours across 5 days a week, so the divisor is 2,080 hours a year on every row. Each figure was computed by the engine on this page rather than typed from a reference chart, so the table and the tool cannot drift apart.
| Annual Salary | Monthly | Weekly | Per Day | Per Hour |
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| ₹2,40,000 | 20,000 | 4,615 | 923.08 | 115.38 |
| ₹4,80,000 | 40,000 | 9,231 | 1,846.15 | 230.77 |
| ₹7,20,000 | 60,000 | 13,846 | 2,769.23 | 346.15 |
| ₹9,00,000 | 75,000 | 17,308 | 3,461.54 | 432.69 |
| ₹15,00,000 | 1,25,000 | 28,846 | 5,769.23 | 721.15 |
| ₹20,00,000 | 1,66,667 | 38,462 | 7,692.31 | 961.54 |
| ₹30,00,000 | 2,50,000 | 57,692 | 11,538.46 | 1,442.31 |
These rows are gross. Provident fund, professional tax and income tax all come out afterwards, so the per hour column is a ceiling on what an hour is worth to you, not a net figure. Change the hours or days in the calculator and every row above moves.
Most Indian employees never see an hourly rate on a payslip, so the honest answer is that it matters most to the people outside that pattern. A freelancer quoting a client needs one before the first invoice, and it is the single most common reason this page gets used. A consultant on a retainer needs it to check whether the retainer still makes sense once the hours crept up. Anyone billing an overseas client in dollars or pounds needs it because that is the unit those contracts are written in, and the working days basis is what Western companies mean by an hourly rate.
Beyond freelancing, the useful cases are comparative. Two offers with the same package and a five day week against a six day week are not the same offer, and only the hourly rate shows it. A promotion that raises pay by 15 percent and hours by 25 percent is a pay cut per hour, and the number makes that arguable rather than a feeling. Part time and contract staff whose hours vary need a rate to price a month that was not full. Companies engaging gig or contract workers need one to build a budget. And anyone whose employer computes loss of pay on the 30 day divisor should know what a day of absence actually costs, which is the calendar basis on this page.
A freelance rate is not the same as an employee hourly rate, and setting them equal is the classic mistake. If you want ₹12,00,000 a year, the employee equivalent at 40 hours a week is ₹576.92 an hour, but a freelancer carries their own provident fund, health cover, equipment and gaps between projects, and only bills a fraction of the hours they work. The common rule of thumb is to multiply the employee equivalent by 1.5 to 2, which puts that same target somewhere between ₹865.38 and ₹1,153.85 an hour. It is a heuristic rather than a rule, so treat it as a floor to reason from. The freelance income calculator works the same problem from the income side, and interns pricing a stipend against hours should start at the internship stipend calculator.
The short version, before the detail: this is a division engine built on two stated payroll conventions, not a reader of your payslip and not a tax calculator. Where it makes an assumption or stops short, it says so.
Every figure this tool returns is gross. It divides the salary you typed by a number of hours and does nothing else. Your own EPF contribution, state professional tax and income tax all reduce the real value of an hour, and none of them are modelled here. To get a net hourly rate, first work out your annual in-hand figure with the in-hand salary calculator, then enter that annual figure into this page instead of your gross. That is the honest route, and it is why this page does not pretend to compute it for you.
On the same salary and the same hours, the working days basis divides by 52 times your weekly hours while the calendar days basis divides by 30 days a month scaled to your hours per working day. At 40 hours across 5 days that is 2,080 hours against 2,880, a difference of about 28 percent in the answer. Neither is a bug. They are two conventions answering two questions, one about the hours you work and one about the days you are paid for. If a client or an employer quotes you a rate, ask which basis it sits on before you agree to it.
The 52 week model treats every week of the year as a paid week, which is true for a salaried employee taking paid leave and false for a freelancer who does not bill during holidays. If you are pricing freelance work, the realistic number of billable weeks is closer to 44 or 46 once leave, public holidays and gaps are taken out, so divide by those weeks rather than 52 by entering the hours that reflect it. The tool does not guess this for you because the right figure depends entirely on your contract.
The hourly and per day rates are shown to two decimals because rounding an hourly rate to whole rupees would throw away the answer: at 2,080 hours a year, one rupee of hourly rounding is over two thousand rupees of annual salary. The weekly, monthly and annual figures are whole rupees. Nothing is rounded before the division, only after it, so the rate ladder is internally consistent even where the displayed figures do not multiply back exactly.
Overtime under section 14 of the Code on Wages 2019 is paid at not less than twice the normal rate of wages, but the normal rate is a defined statutory term and it is not the gross hourly figure this page returns. The hours that trigger overtime come from the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code 2020 and the rules applying to your establishment, and state rules are still being notified. Use the overtime pay calculator for that arithmetic rather than doubling the number on this page.
The conventions this page implements are widely used but they are conventions, not statute, and your employer or client may compute a day and an hour differently. Payroll practice also varies by industry and by state. Check the basis your own contract uses before you rely on a figure for a negotiation or an invoice, and for a decision with real money behind it a chartered accountant or your payroll team is worth asking.
The people who get the most from this page are the ones who have to state a number to somebody else. A freelancer who has decided what they want to earn in a year and needs the hourly figure to put on a proposal. A consultant checking whether a fixed retainer still covers the hours it quietly grew into. A developer in Pune billing a client in London, who needs the 52 week basis because that is the arithmetic the contract assumes. A switcher holding two offers where the packages match but one is a six day week, which only an hourly comparison exposes. A payroll team explaining to an employee why a day of unpaid leave costs a thirtieth of the month rather than a twenty second. If you are going the other way and already have a rate, the hourly to salary calculator builds the annual package from it, and if what you actually want is the money that reaches your bank, the take-home salary calculator is the honest next stop. Everything sits in the wider set of salary calculators for India.
Divide your annual salary by the hours you work in a year. On the working days basis that is 52 weeks multiplied by your hours per week, so at 40 hours a week the divisor is 2,080 hours. A salary of ₹10,00,000 comes to ₹480.77 an hour. The calculator does this for you and also shows the divisor it used, so you can check the assumption rather than trust it.
Set the salary type to monthly and the tool multiplies by twelve before dividing, so you do not have to work out the annual figure first. A monthly salary of ₹75,000 is ₹9,00,000 a year, which at 40 hours a week is ₹432.69 an hour and ₹3,461.54 for a working day. If you would rather see the annual package on its own, the annual salary calculator does that conversion by itself.
The working days model divides a year of salary by 52 weeks of your hours, which is 2,080 hours at a 40 hour week, and is the standard for salaried staff, freelancers and overseas contracts. The calendar days model divides a month by 30 days to get a day rate, then divides that by the hours in a working day, which is the convention Indian payroll uses for loss of pay. On the same salary and hours the calendar basis returns roughly 28 percent less, because it spreads pay across every day rather than every worked day. Neither is wrong. Ask which one a quoted rate is built on.
On the working days basis at 40 hours a week, ₹10,00,000 divided by 2,080 hours is ₹480.77 an hour, and a working day comes to ₹3,846.15. Change the hours and the answer changes with them: 45 hours a week gives 2,340 annual hours and ₹427.35, while 48 hours gives 2,496 and ₹400.64. On the calendar days basis the same salary works out at ₹347.22 an hour.
Because on the calendar days basis the answer depends on it entirely. That model turns a monthly salary into a day rate, then divides by the hours in one working day, and those hours come from your hours per week divided by your days per week. Assume six days for somebody who works five and the rate lands 20 percent too high. The previous version of this page hardcoded six, which is the defect this rebuild corrected. On the working days basis, days per week does not change the hourly rate at all, it only decides how a day's pay is split out.
A salary is a fixed amount for a period, usually a month in India, and it does not move with the hours you actually put in. Wages are paid for time or output delivered, so they rise and fall with attendance. An hourly rate is the unit price sitting underneath either arrangement, and a salaried person has one whether or not anybody has ever written it down. Working it out is what makes a heavy month visible: the salary did not change, so the rate per hour fell.
Gross. The tool divides the salary you typed by hours and computes no tax at all. Your own provident fund contribution, state professional tax and income tax all come out afterwards, so your real take-home per hour is lower than the figure shown. To get a net hourly rate, first work out your annual in-hand amount with the in-hand salary calculator, then enter that annual figure here instead of your gross.
Start with the employee equivalent, then add a margin. If you want ₹12,00,000 a year, at 40 hours a week that is ₹576.92 an hour as a salaried person. A freelancer carries their own provident fund, health cover, equipment, unpaid leave and the hours spent on work nobody bills for, so the common rule of thumb is to multiply by 1.5 to 2, which lands between ₹865.38 and ₹1,153.85. It is a heuristic rather than a rule, so treat it as a floor to reason up from. The freelance income calculator works the same problem from the annual side.
Not directly, and doubling the number on this page would be wrong. Under section 14 of the Code on Wages 2019 overtime is paid at not less than twice the normal rate of wages, but the normal rate is a defined statutory term rather than the gross hourly figure this tool returns. The hours that trigger overtime come from the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code 2020 and the central or state rules covering your establishment, and many states are still notifying theirs. Use the overtime pay calculator for that arithmetic.
Yes. The Copy breakdown button puts the whole result as plain text on your clipboard, including the salary at every period, the hours divisor and the rate ladder, so you can paste it straight into an invoice, a proposal or an email. Nothing is saved anywhere else. There is no account, no download and no history, so if you close the tab the figures are gone and you would enter them again.
No. Every calculation runs in your browser using JavaScript that ships with the page. Nothing you type is sent to a server, written to a database or shared with any third party, and the calculator sets no cookie. Close the tab and your inputs are gone.
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