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Hourly Paycheck Calculator

Hourly pay to take-home, with overtime above forty hours a week at one and a half times and federal tax and FICA taken out. Working more hours than you are paid overtime for is the most common quiet loss.

Also called: hourly wage calculator, hourly to salary after tax.

%
Tax year
Weekly take-home
$844.43

$844.43 a week after tax, from $1,000.00 gross. Annually that is $43,910.50 from $52,000.00, an effective bite of 15.56%.

Weekly gross
$1,000.00
Annual gross
$52,000.00
Annual take-home
$43,910.50
Overtime included
$0.00
Federal income tax
$4,111.50
Social Security and Medicare
$3,978.00
Total tax as a share of gross
15.56%
How this is calculated

Computed from the published rates for the tax year you selected, which is not necessarily the current year. A calculation, not tax advice, and it does not know anything about your circumstances beyond the figures entered.

Method and background

This is what the calculation gives for the numbers you entered. It is an estimate, not advice, and it knows nothing about your situation beyond those numbers. Rules for United States change on a published schedule; the effective date is shown on every rule-based tool.

How this is calculated

Hours up to forty are paid at the rate; hours beyond it attract a premium of half the rate again under federal law. The weekly gross is annualised, run through the standard deduction and the bracket table for federal tax, and charged FICA on the whole of it. State tax is a rate you enter.

weekly gross = rate * min(hours, 40) + 1.5 * rate * hours over 40
r
Hourly rate (currency)
h
Hours worked in the week (hours)

Worked examples

Each of these is asserted on every build. If a change to the engine ever moved one of these answers, the build would fail before the page could print it.

forty hours at 25 an hour

Hourly rate
25
Hours per week
40
Weeks worked per year
52
Filing status
Single
State income tax rate
0%
Tax year
Tax year 2025

Weekly take-home$844.43

arithmetic identity, with no overtime at exactly forty hours

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forty-five hours adds an overtime premium

Hourly rate
25
Hours per week
45
Weeks worked per year
52
Filing status
Single
State income tax rate
0%
Tax year
Tax year 2025

Weekly take-home$995.09

45 * 25 = 1,125 straight time plus a 62.50 premium; 62.50 * 52 = 3,250

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Method and limits

What it assumes

  • Overtime is the federal standard of one and a half times over forty hours a week. Some states require daily overtime as well.
  • The same hours are worked every week.

What it deliberately does not model

  • Tipped, piece-rate and commission pay have their own regular-rate rules and are not modelled here.
  • Unpaid weeks are handled by lowering the weeks worked rather than by modelling leave accrual.

Sources

Formula version 1.0.0 · definition 1.0.0 · United States · Report a problem with this calculator

Frequently asked questions

Is overtime taxed at a higher rate?
No. It can look that way on one paycheck, because withholding tables annualise whatever that period contained and a big week implies a big year. The annual return settles it.