Convert monthly salary to hourly/daily rate
The default of 21.75 working days per month is a common standard for calculating monthly pay (365 days a year minus 104 weekend days, divided by 12 months) — adjust it to match your own situation. This is a simple arithmetic conversion that doesn't account for overtime pay, social insurance, or income tax — for reference only.
This calculator converts a monthly salary into a daily wage, an hourly wage and an amount per minute. It is handy for a rough sense of what an hour or a day of your work is worth, for comparing a part-time quote with your salary, or for getting a quick reference when you think about overtime or deductions for time off. The conversion is plain division: daily wage is monthly salary divided by working days per month, hourly wage is the daily wage divided by working hours per day, and the per-minute figure is the hourly wage divided by 60. To be clear, it is arithmetic only. It does not account for overtime multipliers, social insurance, income tax, bonuses or local legal calculation rules, so it cannot serve as the basis for a labour dispute or a payroll deduction.
With the defaults (10000 CNY a month, 21.75 days, 8 hours): daily wage = 10000 / 21.75, about 459.77 CNY; hourly wage = 459.77 / 8, about 57.47 CNY; per minute, about 0.96 CNY. If your employer counts 20 days a month, the daily wage is 500.00, the hourly wage 62.50 and the per-minute amount 1.04. With a monthly salary of 18000 and 22 days, the daily wage is about 818.18, hourly about 102.27 and per minute about 1.70. Keeping 10000 and 21.75 days but changing the day to 7 hours gives an hourly wage of about 65.68. So the same monthly salary yields noticeably different hourly figures depending on the days and hours you assume. These numbers were produced by running the page's own formulas.
The page's note explains it this way: 365 days in a year minus 104 weekend rest days leaves 261 days, and dividing by 12 months gives 21.75 paid days per month on average. It is a common standard for monthly pay calculations. Your own workplace may differ because of the contract, shift patterns (such as alternating long and short weeks) or other arrangements, which is why the second field can be changed.
As a rough reference, yes, but not as a final answer. The pay base, day count and multipliers for deductions and overtime are set by labour law, contracts, company policy and local rules, and some places use 'monthly pay divided by 21.75 days' while other arrangements differ. If there is a dispute, rely on your contract and local regulations, or consult the labour authority or a professional.
Because daily hours are the divisor. If you change 8 to 10, the same daily wage is spread over more hours and the hourly figure falls. That is exactly what the calculator is meant to show: with a lot of overtime, your effective pay per hour is lower than the nominal one. Try replacing the default 8 with your real average hours.
It depends on how your employer calculates pay. If your contract or policy states the number of days used to derive a daily rate, use that. If you are unsure, keep 21.75 as the general standard. Remember that the actual number of days worked varies from month to month because of public holidays and swapped working days, but daily and hourly rates are normally computed with one fixed average.
The field is labelled pre-tax monthly salary, and the results are averages of that gross figure. If you want an hourly rate based on take-home pay, first use the income tax calculator to find your net pay, then enter that number here as the monthly salary.
The conversion runs in your browser and is just division on the three numbers you type. The code sends them to no server and stores nothing; refreshing the page restores the defaults. Pay is personal information, so avoid leaving the page open on a shared device.