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Pay raise calculator

Calculate a raise or pay cut by percentage, amount or new salary, with optional inflation and part-year comparisons. Check the method, worked example and limits before using your result.

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Pay raise calculator

Find your new pay, the size of a raise or cut, and what it means across pay periods.

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Current pay and change inputs
1Your pay change

Base pay before taxes and deductions. Currency and pay period are shown beside the input.

%

Enter the percentage and choose raise or cut above. Current pay must be positive.

Amount per selected pay period. Choose raise or cut above.

Enter the new amount for the same pay period as current pay.

Paid schedule & conversions

40 hours, 5 days and 52 paid weeks are editable examples. Include leave only if paid at the same base rate. Exclude unpaid weeks and daily unpaid breaks.

h/week

Used for hourly equivalents. Up to two decimal places.

days/week

Whole workdays, using an average length.

weeks/year

Includes paid leave at the same rate. Excludes unpaid weeks.

Inflation & part-year impact
%

Total price change between the old-pay and new-pay dates, often one year. This is separate from the hourly/monthly pay period. Negative means deflation. Enter your own figure.

months

0–12 equivalent months. Other months use current pay. Uniform-month proration, not an employer payroll calculation.

Currency & number format

Currency changes the label without exchange conversion. Check that both amounts use the same currency.

How to use

Enter current base pay and choose its period: annual, monthly, twice monthly, every two weeks, weekly, daily or hourly. Choose whether the change is a percentage, a money amount or a known new pay level. Use the paid weekly schedule for hourly and daily equivalents.

Optional sections compare purchasing power with an inflation percentage you supply and estimate a year split between old and new pay. All amounts are gross base pay before tax and deductions. Currency selection changes the label without converting money.

Calculation method

Percentage mode changes pay by current × percentage / 100. Amount mode adds or subtracts the entered change; new-pay mode compares the new and old levels. The percentage change divides the difference by current pay when that base is positive.

Average annual conversion uses 12 monthly, 24 twice-monthly, 26 biweekly or 52 weekly periods. Hourly and daily equivalents use the paid schedule. For inflation i, real new pay = nominal new pay / (1 + i / 100). The part-year estimate weights the annual old and new equivalents by the entered months at each level.

Worked example

A 5% rise on 50,000 per year gives 52,500, an increase of 2,500 annually or about 208.33 per average month. With 3% inflation over the comparison interval, real new pay in starting-period money is about 50,970.87: real growth is approximately 1.94175%, not exactly 2%.

If six equivalent months use the old 50,000 rate and six use 52,500, modeled year pay is 51,250.

Keep the comparison consistent

Twice monthly is not every two weeks. Average periods are not a prediction of actual pay dates. A changed paid-hours schedule affects hourly and salary equivalents differently; this calculator does not compare two distinct schedules. Inflation is user-entered, not a live economic feed. Part-year figures use proportional months rather than payroll dates.

For separate schedules and paid or unpaid leave, use the salary to hourly calculator. For logged shifts and selected overtime rules, use the work hours calculator.

For the measurement and planning details, read understanding a pay rise across periods and inflation.