Hourly Wage Calculator UK

Multiply your hourly rate by the number of hours you work in a week, then multiply that by the number of weeks you're paid for in a year, usually 52. For example, £15 an hour for 37.5 hours a week comes to £562.50 a week, or £29,250 a year across 52 weeks. This calculator does that maths for you and then works out your Income Tax, National Insurance and take-home pay on top.

It depends on your hours per week and how many weeks you're paid for. A common full-time pattern of 37.5 hours a week across 52 weeks comes to 1,950 hours a year; 40 hours a week across 52 weeks comes to 2,080 hours. If you only work part of the year, such as school term time, use your actual paid weeks instead of 52 for an accurate figure.

For 2026/27, it's £12.71 an hour for workers aged 21 and over (this top rate is called the National Living Wage), £10.85 for 18 to 20 year olds, and £8.00 for under-18s and most apprentices. These are legal minimums; your employer must pay at least this much for every hour you work, and this calculator checks your entered rate against the right band for your age.

Yes. It converts your hourly rate into an annual salary and then applies the same 2026/27 Income Tax bands, Personal Allowance and employee National Insurance rates used across the rest of this site, for either England, Wales and Northern Ireland or Scotland. It also applies student loan repayments if you select a plan.

That depends entirely on how much your hourly rate adds up to over the year. Below the £12,570 Personal Allowance you pay no Income Tax at all; above it, the basic rate of 20% applies up to £50,270 of income (in England, Wales and Northern Ireland), then 40% above that. National Insurance is charged separately, at 8% on earnings between £12,570 and £50,270. Enter your own hourly rate and hours above for an exact figure.

Change the 'paid weeks per year' field to match your actual working pattern, for example 39 weeks for a typical school term-time role. The calculator uses this figure for your annual salary and for the weekly take-home figure, so both reflect what you actually earn across the weeks you work, rather than assuming a full 52-week year.

There's no separate legal 'overtime rate' in the UK; your employer sets whatever overtime rate is in your contract, and it must still average out to at least the National Minimum Wage across the hours you actually work. If you're paid a higher rate for overtime hours, the simplest way to use this calculator is to work out your average hourly rate across all your hours, or run separate calculations for your standard and overtime pay and add the results together.

The National Living Wage is simply the name for the top band of the National Minimum Wage, which applies to workers aged 21 and over. Younger age groups and apprentices are covered by the standard National Minimum Wage at lower rates. All of them are legal minimums that increase every April.

Yes, though your hours are likely to vary week to week, so treat the result as an estimate for a typical week rather than a fixed figure. Whatever hours you're offered and accept, you must still be paid at least the National Minimum Wage for your age for every hour worked. The government has also been introducing new rules giving zero-hours workers a right to more predictable hours and notice of shifts, so it's worth checking your contract for anything specific to your employer.