Weekly Pay Calculator (2026/27)

Convert your pay above in seconds

Enter any one figure - hourly, weekly, monthly or yearly - and the tool above fills in the rest. Tell it your usual hours if you are paid by the hour, and it will hold the conversion steady so you can flick between frequencies without redoing the sums. Read on for how the numbers are reached and where gross weekly pay differs from what actually lands in your account.

How the weekly pay maths works

At its core a weekly wage calculator is simple division and multiplication, but the divisor matters. The cleanest formula is:

Weekly pay = Annual salary ÷ 52

Payroll software almost always uses 52 because a standard month is treated as 4.333 weeks and the year as 52 weeks for pay purposes. So a £31,200 salary gives £31,200 ÷ 52 = £600 a week gross. From the other direction, a weekly salary calculator multiplies up: £600 × 52 = £31,200 a year, or £600 × 52 ÷ 12 = £2,600 a month.

There is a subtlety worth knowing. A calendar year is 365 days, which is 52.14 weeks, not exactly 52. Some statutory calculations (like holiday pay reference periods) use 52.14, but mainstream salaried payroll uses a flat 52. This tool uses 52 to match your payslip. If you are paid a true daily or hourly rate, the gap between 52 and 52.14 can shift your annual figure by a few hundred pounds, so always check which basis an employer is quoting.

For hourly workers the chain is: Weekly pay = Hourly rate × Hours per week. A rate of £15 over 37.5 hours is £15 × 37.5 = £562.50 a week, then × 52 = £29,250 a year. If you want to move between a rate and a salary in either direction, the salary to hourly calculator and the hourly rate calculator handle the same arithmetic with hours built in.

Gross weekly pay vs take-home weekly pay

The figure this tool converts is your gross weekly pay - before Income Tax, National Insurance, pension and student loan come out. Take-home is lower, and crucially it is worked out per pay period, not as a neat slice of the annual deductions.

National Insurance for employees is calculated on each week's or month's earnings using weekly thresholds (a Primary Threshold of £242 a week and an Upper Earnings Limit of £967 a week for 2026/27). Income Tax, by contrast, is cumulative across the year through your tax code. That means two people on the same annual salary can see slightly different weekly deductions if one has irregular pay. For a full net figure, run the numbers through the take-home pay calculator or the gross-to-net calculator, which apply tax, NI and pension in the right order.

Worked example: a nurse paid annually

Priya is an NHS nurse on £31,200 a year, paid monthly, and wants to know her weekly equivalent for budgeting.

• Gross weekly pay: £31,200 ÷ 52 = £600
• Gross monthly pay: £31,200 ÷ 12 = £2,600
• NI per week: earnings above the £242 threshold are charged at 8%. (£600 - £242) × 8% = £358 × 0.08 = £28.64 a week
• Income Tax per week (rough): taxable pay is £600 - £242 of weekly personal allowance (£12,570 ÷ 52) = £358 × 20% = £71.60 a week

So Priya's gross £600 becomes roughly £600 - £28.64 - £71.60 = £499.76 a week before any pension. The conversion to weekly is exact; the deductions are illustrative and ignore her NHS pension, which would lower the figure further.

Worked example: an hourly contractor

Sam does shift work at £18.50 an hour and his hours vary. In a 40-hour week he earns £18.50 × 40 = £740; in a quieter 28-hour week he earns £18.50 × 28 = £518. Annualising the busy rate (£740 × 52 = £38,480) overstates his real yearly income if his hours fluctuate. For variable hours, average several recent weeks rather than annualising a single good week. If overtime is paid at a premium, the overtime calculator works out the uplifted rate before you convert.

2026/27 rates and thresholds used here

These are the employee figures the conversions and take-home estimates lean on, checked for the 2026/27 tax year against gov.uk.

Source: gov.uk rates and thresholds for employers 2026 to 2027 and gov.uk Income Tax rates. If you live in Scotland, the conversion to weekly pay is identical, but your Income Tax is charged using the Scottish bands and rates (which include a 19% starter and 21% intermediate band) rather than the rates above - National Insurance is the same UK-wide. Check your weekly net with the Scotland tax calculator.

Getting more from the weekly figure

• Budget on take-home, not gross. Your rent, direct debits and savings come out of net pay. Convert to gross weekly to compare offers, then convert to net weekly to actually plan a budget.
• Watch part-year and pro-rata pay. If you start mid-year or work part-time, a full-year-to-weekly division understates or overstates your real pay. The pro-rata salary calculator adjusts a full-time salary down to your actual hours or weeks.
• Include holiday properly. A salaried weekly figure already bakes in paid leave; an hourly rate may not. If you are a worker building up leave, the holiday entitlement calculator shows how many paid weeks you are owed.

Common mistakes when converting to weekly pay

• Dividing by 4 to get a monthly-to-weekly figure. A month is 4.333 weeks, not 4. Dividing monthly pay by 4 overstates your weekly pay by about 8%. Use monthly × 12 ÷ 52 instead.
• Confusing gross and net. Job adverts quote gross; your bank shows net. Comparing one job's gross weekly to another's take-home is the most common slip.
• Annualising a single big week. For variable hours, multiply an average week by 52, not your best one.
• Ignoring the tax code. An emergency or wrong tax code can cut your weekly take-home far below the estimate; check the code on your payslip against your National Insurance calculator and tax results before assuming a shortfall is permanent.

For more on how pay is taxed week by week, MoneyHelper has a clear plain-English guide at moneyhelper.org.uk.

These results are estimates for guidance only and are not personal tax or financial advice. Check your own payslip and gov.uk, or speak to a qualified adviser, before making decisions.

Related pay calculators

Keep converting and checking with the wage calculator for a broader breakdown, the take-home pay calculator for your exact net figure, and the hourly rate calculator if you want to price a day rate or shift.