In-Hand Salary Calculator
CTC to actual take-home — new vs old regime, city-wise HRA, state professional tax and the full EPF split.
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Salary to Hourly Calculator
Turn a salary, a monthly figure or an LPA number into what an hour of your time is actually worth — with your own hours, holidays and leave. Everything is calculated in this tab; your salary is never sent anywhere.
Your salary
₹6,00,000 a year (6 × 1 lakh)
Changing currency changes the formatting, not the amount — live exchange rates would mean sending your salary to an FX server, which this tool never does.
8h
52 unless you genuinely work part of the year
What an hour is worth
Gross, per hour
₹302.42
- Per year
- ₹6.00L
- Per month
- ₹50,000
- Per week
- ₹12,097
- Per day
- ₹2,419
- Per hour
- ₹302.42
- Per minute
- ₹5.04
What that buys
A 15-minute chai break₹75.60
A 10-minute auto ride₹50.40
One 45-minute episode₹226.81
A 30-minute standup₹151.21
Based on 248 working days · 1,984 hours a year
How to convert salary to an hourly rate in India
The formula is one division, and almost everyone gets the denominator wrong. Your hourly rate is your annual salary divided by the hours you actually work in a year — not by 2,080, and not by the 8,760 hours a year contains.
Start by putting the salary on an annual footing. An LPA figure is multiplied by 1,00,000, so 6 LPA is ₹6,00,000. A monthly salary is multiplied by 12; a weekly one by 52. Then count the hours. On a 5-day week you are contracted for 52 × 5 = 260 days, and a typical Indian employer gives about 12 paid holidays, so you actually work around 248 days. At 8 hours a day that is 1,984 hours — not the 2,080 the round number suggests.
So 6 LPA works out at ₹6,00,000 ÷ 1,984 = about ₹302 an hour. Divide by the lazy 2,080 and you get ₹288, which understates your time by roughly 5%. The gap widens with every holiday you take: days off shrink the hours without shrinking the salary, so each remaining hour is worth more, not less. That is the single most counter-intuitive thing about this calculation, and it is why the tool asks for your holidays rather than assuming them.
The same arithmetic runs the other way for a daily rate. Dividing a monthly salary by 30 is the usual shortcut and it is wrong for the same reason — it prices your weekends as working days. A ₹50,000 monthly salary is ₹6,00,000 a year, which across 248 worked days is about ₹2,419 a day, not the ₹1,667 that dividing by 30 suggests.
Deductions come off the top, not out of the hours. If PF takes 12%, professional tax ₹200 a month and income tax an effective 5%, your ₹6,00,000 becomes roughly ₹4,95,600 net — and your net hourly rate falls to about ₹250. The hours never change; only the numerator does. That is why the Deductions tab recalculates every row rather than just subtracting from the total.
One thing worth knowing about a freelance rate: the salaried hourly figure is a floor, not a target. A salary quietly covers your unbilled hours, your employer’s share of PF, your equipment, your leave and the gaps between projects. A freelancer pays for all of it out of the same rate, which is why the conventional advice is to mark the salaried equivalent up substantially before quoting it.
Frequently asked questions
How do I convert LPA to an hourly rate?
Multiply the LPA figure by 1,00,000 to get your annual salary, then divide by the hours you actually work in a year. For 6 LPA on a standard 5-day, 8-hour week with 12 paid holidays: 6,00,000 ÷ ((52 × 5 − 12) × 8) = 6,00,000 ÷ 1,984 = about ₹302 an hour. The number most people quote is ₹288, because they divide by a flat 2,080 hours and forget that holidays shrink the hours without shrinking the salary.
How do I calculate my daily wage from a monthly salary?
Multiply the monthly figure by 12 to get the annual, divide by the days you actually work in a year, and you have a true daily rate. Dividing a monthly salary by 30 is the common shortcut and it understates the number badly — it prices your weekends and holidays as working days. On a 5-day week with 12 holidays you work about 248 days a year, not 365.
Why is my hourly rate higher than I expected?
Almost always because holidays and weekends are being counted correctly. Your salary is paid across the whole year, but you only work part of it, so every day off makes each worked hour worth more, not less. Adding unpaid leave pushes the rate up for the same reason — the salary shrinks, but the hours you actually work shrink faster.
Does this calculate my in-hand salary after tax?
Only roughly, and only if you fill in the Deductions tab, where PF and income tax are simple percentages and professional tax is a flat monthly amount. For a real take-home figure — new versus old regime, city-wise HRA, state professional tax, EPF and gratuity — use the In-Hand Salary Calculator instead; it models the actual Indian rules rather than asking you for a percentage you would have to know already.
Does changing the currency convert my salary?
No, and this is worth being clear about. Switching currency changes only how the number is written — the grouping, the symbol, the decimal places. ₹6,00,000 becomes $600,000, not the dollar equivalent. That is deliberate: live exchange rates would mean calling an FX API, which would mean sending your salary to a server, and this tool never does that. To see a genuine conversion, convert the figure first and then enter it.
What is the live wage clock?
It counts what you have earned since you opened the page, ticking every second at your calculated per-second rate. It is a way of making an abstract annual number feel concrete — most people have a much clearer sense of what a 15-minute chai break costs than of what 6 LPA means per hour.
How many working days are there in a year in India?
About 248 on a standard 5-day week — 52 weeks × 5 days = 260, minus roughly 12 company holidays. On a 6-day week it is closer to 295. Neither is fixed: holidays vary by company and state, so the tool lets you set your own rather than baking in a number that will be wrong for most people.
Is my salary sent anywhere?
No. Every figure is calculated in your browser by a few lines of arithmetic — there is no API call, no analytics event carrying your salary, and no server that ever sees it. Only your currency and frequency choices are saved, and those stay in your own browser's local storage. Load the page once and it keeps working with the network off.
Can I use this to set a freelance rate?
It is a good starting point, not the answer. Pick the Freelancer preset, enter the annual income you want, and you get the hourly rate that salary implies. Then raise it — a freelance rate also has to cover unbilled hours, your own taxes, equipment, insurance and gaps between clients, none of which a salary makes you pay for separately.
What counts as "working weeks per year"?
The weeks you are contracted for, which is 52 for almost everyone on a salary. Lower it only if you genuinely work part of the year — seasonal contracts, academic terms, a sabbatical. Paid holidays and unpaid leave are separate inputs, so you should not also shorten the year to account for them or you will double-count.
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