SALARY CALCULATOR AUSTRALIA

How Our Salary Calculator Calculates Your Pay in 4 Quick Steps 

Step 1: Choose your conversion: Select Salary to Hourly or Hourly to Salary.
Step 2: Enter your pay: Add your annual salary or hourly rate.
Step 3: Customise your work schedule – Set your hours, days, and weeks worked, then adjust the available superannuation and Medicare Levy settings.
Step 4: View your results – See your equivalent pay rate, estimated tax and take-home pay across the available pay periods.

Note: Results are estimates only. HELP/HECS, Medicare Levy Surcharge, offsets other than LITO and some individual circumstances are not included.

How Our Salary Calculator Converts Your Pay

Choose the conversion based on the pay figure you already know:

1. Salary to Hourly: Enter your annual salary to calculate its estimated hourly equivalent.
2. Hourly to Salary: Enter your hourly rate to estimate its annual equivalent.

Our calculator uses the work schedule you set, so you can adjust your hours per week, days per week and weeks per year instead of relying on a fixed schedule.

For example, if a new role offers an annual salary while your current job pays hourly, convert both to the same pay basis to make the figures easier to assess.

Convert Annual Salary to an Hourly Rate: Helpful Example

Enter your annual salary and set the hours and weeks you normally work. Our calculator will convert the salary into an estimated hourly rate.

Example: Enter an annual salary of $80,000, with 38 hours per week and 52 weeks per year.

$80,000 ÷ 52 ÷ 38 = approximately $40.49 per hour

If you work a different schedule, change the hours or weeks in our calculator and the hourly equivalent will adjust accordingly.

Convert Hourly Pay to an Annual Salary: Helpful Example

Already know your hourly rate? Switch to Hourly to Salary and enter your usual work schedule to estimate your annual salary equivalent.

Example: Enter $35 per hour, 38 hours per week and 52 weeks per year.

$35 × 38 × 52 = $69,160 per year

If you work 25 hours per week at the same $35 hourly rate for 52 weeks, the annual equivalent becomes $45,500.

This lets you calculate your annual equivalent around the hours you actually expect to work.

Customise Your Salary Calculation to Your Work Schedule

Your hourly or annual equivalent depends on the work schedule entered into the calculator.

With our Salary Calculator, you can adjust:

• Hours worked per week
• Days worked per week
• Weeks worked per year

For example, if you want to explore moving from 38 hours to 30 hours per week, change the weekly hours and calculate again to see how the new schedule affects your result.

Calculate Your Estimated Take-Home Pay After Tax

Our calculator goes beyond converting annual and hourly pay. It also estimates applicable income tax and Medicare levy based on your selected settings and shows your estimated take-home pay.

For example, if you are considering a higher annual salary, enter the new amount and check its estimated take-home pay. You can then run your current salary through the calculator to compare the results instead of looking only at the difference between the two gross salaries.

Note: Your result is an estimate. Actual PAYG withholding and your final tax position can differ depending on your individual circumstances.

Calculate Salary With or Without Superannuation

Check how superannuation is treated before using an advertised salary in your calculation.

Our calculator lets you select whether the annual salary you enter includes superannuation and adjust the superannuation percentage used.

For example:

Offer A: $80,000 + super
Offer B: $80,000 package including super

These figures do not represent the same base salary. Select the appropriate super setting in our calculator to see how it affects the salary figures you are reviewing.

Use Salary Conversion to Check Job Offers

When two jobs quote pay differently, our calculator can help you convert them to the same pay basis.

For example:

Job A: $80,000 per year
Job B: $42 per hour

Enter the annual offer using Salary to Hourly, or enter the hourly offer using Hourly to Salary with the expected working hours and weeks.

Run each offer separately to review its converted pay, estimated tax and take-home pay.

Note: Our calculator does not compare two offers side by side. Overtime, penalty rates, casual loading, bonuses, allowances, leave entitlements and other employment conditions should also be considered separately.

What You Get From Our Salary Calculator

Our Salary Calculator Australia brings the main pay calculations together so you can:

• Convert annual salary to hourly pay
• Convert hourly pay to annual salary
• Set your own hours, days and weeks worked
• Calculate using the relevant superannuation settings
• Estimate applicable income tax and take-home pay
• View results across different pay periods

You can change the inputs and calculate again when checking your current income, a different working schedule, a new hourly rate or a potential salary offer.