I remember as a kid when I got my first job - it was part-time and paid minimum wage in retail. There were some full-timers there as well, and I remember wanting to know “well, if they are getting paid minimum wage, too, what’s that mean they are bringing home per year?” So the hourly-to-salary calculator was the next one for me to create.
And of course, I did the flip of it: salary-to-hourly. I frequently read questions on Reddit where people bring up things like two competing job opportunities, and wondering how to best equate them. Hopefully something like this helps.
It’s easy to overlook the value of vacation days, sick days, and health beneifts and things like that when transitioning from an hourly job to salary. At my day job, we had some folks who did contracting work for us, and therefore they were hourly, and when we hired them full time salary, they actually made less money, but the paid days off made up for it.
Making this calculator is also when I started grouping categories and doing ‘related calculator’ sections on each calculator, so things would link back and forth. I remember reading about the SEO benefit of related posts on a blog. That Google gives more weight to pages linked to from a popular source, so if one of the calculators gets popular, having links to others will only help them further with SEO juice.
Will this work still in 2026, where there are a plethora of sites and blogs and online calculators, and where people turn to chatGPT before they turn to the Google? Or they turn to an app before they turn to the web at all? Am I 30 years too late? If I fall a tree in this forest when nobody is around, does it still make a sound? We shall see!