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Comparing a salaried offer against an hourly one? Convert either direction instantly — and see the working year the answer depends on, instead of taking it on faith.

Both directions Working year shown and editable Gross figures, clearly labelled

Annual salary (before tax)

NZ$

The working year you are assuming

Hours per week

Weeks per year

That is 2,080 hours a year. This divisor is an assumption, not a fact — change either field and the hourly answer changes with it.

Hourly equivalent · gross $36.06

SOURCE·Arithmetic only — no external rate·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Weekly$1,442

Fortnightly$2,885

Monthly$6,250

Annual$75,000

Based on 40 hours a week over 52 weeks — 2,080 hours a year. All figures are gross (before tax): PAYE, the ACC earner levy, KiwiSaver and any student loan come off before it reaches your bank.

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The arithmetic is one line: salary ÷ annual hours. A $75,000 salary on a 40-hour, 52-week year is $36.06 an hour; $35 an hour over the same year is $72,800. The number is not the interesting part — what you hold constant is.

The working year is the argument. A salaried role advertised at 40 hours that reliably takes 48 pays $30.05 an hour on that $75,000, not $36.06. Same salary, same job, a fifth less per hour, and the only thing that changed was the divisor. That is why both halves of it sit in the card as editable fields rather than buried in a footnote.

Compare whole packages, not headline rates. A permanent role carries four weeks' paid annual holidays, the public holidays, sick leave and an employer KiwiSaver contribution. A casual rate carries 8% holiday pay in place of leave. Two numbers that look identical can be several thousand dollars apart once those are counted.

Everything here is gross. This converter deliberately publishes no PAYE rates and no tax brackets: brackets change, and an undated bracket table is a wrong answer waiting to happen. If you want to know whether the salary itself is competitive before converting it, what your occupation actually pays is built from official government wage data.

How this is worked out

Read the figure entered and which direction it is being converted.
Build the working year from the two fields you control: hours per week × weeks per year. The default 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours keeps your paid annual holidays and public holidays inside the year, because you are paid for them.
Salary → hourly divides the annual salary by those annual hours. Hourly → salary multiplies the rate by them.
Weekly, fortnightly and monthly always come off the annual figure divided by 52, 26 and 12 — salaried pay spreads across the calendar year even when fewer weeks than that are worked.
Nothing is deducted. Every figure stays gross: this tool applies no PAYE, ACC, KiwiSaver or student loan rate, and publishes none.

annual hours  = hours per week × weeks per year
hourly rate   = annual salary ÷ annual hours
annual salary = hourly rate × annual hours

Where these figures come from →

Salary to hourly, at 40 hours a week

Assumption · 40 h/wk × 52 wk = 2,080 h Arithmetic only — no external rate · JUL 2026

Gross figures throughout. Every row is the same one-line division — annual salary ÷ 2,080 — so nothing here depends on a rate, a bracket or a tax year to stay correct. Working a different year? Change the two fields in the converter above and read your own row.
Annual salary	Hourly	Weekly	Fortnightly	Monthly
$45,000	$21.63	$865	$1,731	$3,750
$50,000	$24.04	$962	$1,923	$4,167
$55,000	$26.44	$1,058	$2,115	$4,583
$60,000	$28.85	$1,154	$2,308	$5,000
$65,000	$31.25	$1,250	$2,500	$5,417
$70,000	$33.65	$1,346	$2,692	$5,833
$75,000	$36.06	$1,442	$2,885	$6,250
$80,000	$38.46	$1,538	$3,077	$6,667
$90,000	$43.27	$1,731	$3,462	$7,500
$100,000	$48.08	$1,923	$3,846	$8,333
$110,000	$52.88	$2,115	$4,231	$9,167
$120,000	$57.69	$2,308	$4,615	$10,000
$150,000	$72.12	$2,885	$5,769	$12,500

SOURCE·Arithmetic only — no external rate·Gross, before PAYE·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Pay questions, answered

How do I convert a salary to an hourly rate?

Divide the annual salary by the hours you work in a year. On a 40-hour week over 52 weeks that is 2,080 hours, so $75,000 a year is $75,000 ÷ 2,080 = $36.06 an hour. Change either half of that working year in the calculator and the answer changes with it — which is the point.

How many hours a year is full time?

A 40-hour week over 52 weeks is 2,080 hours. That figure deliberately includes your paid annual holidays and public holidays: you are paid for them, so they stay in the conversion. If you would rather divide by weeks actually worked — 48, say — set the weeks-per-year field to 48 and the hourly figure rises accordingly. Neither is wrong; they answer different questions.

Are these figures before or after tax?

Before tax, on both sides. Employers advertise and negotiate in gross figures, so the conversion stays gross. This tool applies no PAYE rate, no ACC earner levy, no KiwiSaver rate and no student loan rate — it publishes no tax figures at all. For take-home estimates, Inland Revenue's own calculator is the authoritative one.

What is a good hourly rate in New Zealand?

That depends on the industry and on whether the hours are guaranteed: 40 hours at $35 is $72,800 a year, while 30 contracted hours at the same $35 is $54,600 — a very different job on an identical headline rate. For the current adult minimum wage, check Employment New Zealand directly; it is reviewed annually, so any figure quoted here would go stale.

What about overtime and casual loading?

New Zealand has no statutory overtime rate — time-and-a-half exists only if your employment agreement says so. Casual employees receive 8% holiday pay on top of their rate in place of annual holidays under the Holidays Act 2003, so a casual $35 plus 8% is roughly equivalent to a permanent $35 with four weeks' leave.

I'm going contracting — can I just use this number?

No. A contractor covers their own leave, ACC, gear and unpaid downtime, so matching a salary needs a materially higher rate than the raw hourly equivalent. The rate calculator in this network is built for exactly that conversion.

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Where these figures come from

Every number this tool uses, with the official source and the date it applies from. If a figure here is out of date, the source link is the one to trust.

Four weeks' paid annual holidays; 8% holiday pay in place of annual holidays (Holidays Act 2003) Employment New Zealand — Annual holidays (employment.govt.nz) As at 29 July 2026 — confirm the current figure at the source before you rely on it
Paid rest breaks and unpaid meal breaks (Employment Relations Act 2000, Part 6D) Employment New Zealand — Rest and meal breaks (employment.govt.nz) As at 29 July 2026 — confirm the current figure at the source before you rely on it

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