Gross to Net Take-Home Pay
$15 an hour is how much a year?
$15 an hour works out to $31,200 a year before tax, based on a 40-hour week for all 52 weeks. That is $2,600.00 a month, $1,200.00 per biweekly paycheque, and $600.00 a week. The table below converts the same rate across every pay period, and the calculator above turns it into take-home pay once you enter your own tax rates.
Every pay period at this rate
| Hourly | $15.00 |
|---|---|
| Per 8-hour day | $120.00 |
| Weekly (40 hrs) | $600.00 |
| Biweekly (80 hrs) | $1,200.00 |
| Semi-monthly | $1,300.00 |
| Monthly | $2,600.00 |
| Annual | $31,200 |
Every row is the same 2,080-hour year (40 hours × 52 weeks) sliced by pay period, gross of tax. For take-home, put your own rates into the calculator above.
The arithmetic, step by step
Someone earning $15.00 an hour who works a standard 40-hour week is paid $600.00 for that week. Over a two-week pay cycle that is $1,200.00, and across the full 2,080-hour year it totals $31,200 before any tax is withheld.
At this rate, overtime is where the arithmetic gets interesting: time-and-a-half is $22.50 an hour, so a 45-hour week pays $712.50 rather than $600.00 — those 5 extra hours add $5,850 over a full year of them. The flip side: every unpaid hour off costs $15.00, and an unpaid week costs $600.00.
Same rate, different weekly hours
| Schedule | Weekly | Annual (52 wks) |
|---|---|---|
| 30 hrs/week | $450.00 | $23,400 |
| 35 hrs/week | $525.00 | $27,300 |
| 40 hrs/week | $600.00 | $31,200 |
| 45 hrs/week | $675.00 | $35,100 |
At $15.00, hours drive the annual figure as hard as the rate does: the gap between a 30- and a 45-hour week is $11,700 a year.
Methodology and transparency
One convention drives the whole page: a working year of 2,080 hours, which is 40 a week for all 52 weeks with no unpaid time off. Change that assumption and the numbers change with it — the hours table above quantifies by how much. Every amount is before tax; the calculator applies whatever rates you enter, locally, with nothing sent or stored.
Common questions
$15 an hour is how much a year?
$31,200 a year, working 2,080 hours a year. That is 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, with no unpaid time off.
How much is that a month?
$2,600.00 a month before tax. Months are not all the same length, so a monthly figure is the annual total divided by twelve rather than four weekly cheques — four weeks pays $2,400.00, which is less.
What does it come to per paycheque?
$1,200.00 every two weeks, or $1,300.00 twice a month. Biweekly pay means 26 cheques a year; semi-monthly means 24 slightly larger ones.
What is that per working day, or per minute?
An 8-hour day pays $120.00, and each working minute is worth $0.25. Across the 260 weekdays of a standard year that daily figure rebuilds the annual total: $120.00 × 260 ≈ $31,200.
How nearby rates compare
- $12 an hour — $24,960, $6,240 less a year
- $13 an hour — $27,040, $4,160 less a year
- $14 an hour — $29,120, $2,080 less a year
- $16 an hour — $33,280, $2,080 more a year
- $17 an hour — $35,360, $4,160 more a year
- $18 an hour — $37,440, $6,240 more a year