Annualise an hourly rate into gross yearly, weekly and monthly pay.
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Turning a rate into a real annual figure
Job ads and contracts quote pay in wildly different ways. A retail role might be advertised by the hour, an agency contract by the day, and a salaried post by the year. To compare them honestly you need them all in the same units. This tool does the simplest and most useful conversion: it takes an hourly rate and turns it into gross annual, monthly and weekly pay, using the hours and weeks you actually work. The result is a before-tax figure, which is the number every Irish payroll system starts from before it deducts income tax, USC and PRSI.
The two inputs people get wrong
The arithmetic is rate times hours per week times weeks per year. The two numbers people fumble are hours and weeks. A standard Irish full-time week is often 37.5 or 39 hours, not 40, once an unpaid lunch is stripped out, so check your contract rather than assuming. Weeks matter even more. If you are paid for annual leave, use 52 weeks. If you are a true casual or seasonal worker who is not paid when you do not work, drop the weeks figure to reflect that, because 48 worked weeks instead of 52 cuts the annual total by almost 8 percent.
Keep in mind the national minimum wage sits at €13.50 an hour for 2025, so any rate you enter is best sense-checked against that floor for adult employees. Overtime, shift premiums and bonuses are not captured here, since they are irregular. Enter your base rate to get a clean baseline, then treat extras as a top-up. If you work a compressed pattern, say four longer days, the weekly hours still drive the figure, so total your contracted hours rather than counting days.
€20 an hour, 37.5 hours, 52 weeks
Take €20 an hour on a 37.5 hour week, paid across the full 52 weeks of the year. Multiply the hours by the weeks first, giving 1,950 paid hours a year, then multiply by the rate.
| Hourly rate | €20.00 |
| Hours per week times weeks (37.5 times 52) | 1,950 hours |
| Weekly gross (20 times 37.5) | €750 |
| Monthly gross (annual divided by 12) | €3,250 |
| Annual gross salary | €39,000 |
So €20 an hour is a €39,000 salary on those hours. Push the week to 39 hours and the same rate becomes €40,560, which shows how sensitive the headline figure is to a small change in contracted hours.
From gross to what lands in your account
A €39,000 salary is not what you take home. As a single PAYE employee you would lose income tax, with the first €44,000 taxed at 20 percent, plus USC across its bands and PRSI at 4.1 percent, offset by the €2,000 personal and €2,000 PAYE tax credits. The net is meaningfully lower than the gross. Use this tool to fix the annual gross, then run that figure through a take-home calculator to see the monthly cash. Doing it in that order stops you comparing a gross contract rate against a net salary, which is the classic apples-to-oranges error in a job search.
How do I convert a daily contractor rate instead?
Multiply the day rate by the days you work per week, then by your working weeks. A €250 day rate over 5 days and 46 billable weeks is €57,500 gross, before you account for the fact that contractors get no paid holidays or sick pay, which is why day rates look higher than equivalent salaries.
Why is my monthly figure not four times my weekly pay?
Because a month is longer than four weeks. There are 52 weeks but only 12 months in a year, so a month averages about 4.33 weeks. The tool divides the true annual figure by 12, which is why €750 a week becomes €3,250 a month rather than €3,000.