Enter an hourly rate or an annual salary to calculate biweekly pay, plus its annual and monthly equivalents.
How to Use the Biweekly Pay Calculator
Switch between Hourly and Annual Salary with the toggle at the top — Hourly asks for a rate and hours per week, Salary asks only for the yearly figure.
Biweekly pay isn't simply a monthly number split in half — a monthly paycheck happens 12 times a year, a biweekly one happens 26 times, and those two counts almost never line up cleanly.
Hourly: Biweekly Pay = Rate × Hours/Week × 2
Salary: Biweekly Pay = Annual Salary ÷ 26The hourly version doubles a standard workweek's pay to cover the two-week span. The salary version divides by 26 rather than 24, which is the detail that trips people up when they try to estimate a biweekly check by halving a "twice-monthly" number instead — those are two different pay schedules with different period counts.
Annual Equivalent multiplies the biweekly figure back out by 26, mostly as a sanity check against whatever salary or hourly-times-hours number you started from. Monthly Equivalent divides that annual figure by 12 for comparing against monthly bills, even though no biweekly paycheck actually lands on a monthly cadence.