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title: "Hours of Work Calculator: What a Price Costs | Thrift Morrow"
description: "How many hours of work does it cost? Turn any price into hours and working days at your take-home pay per year, month, week or hour. No tax maths needed."
url: https://thriftmorrow.me/hours-of-work-calculator/
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Price in hours

# Hours of work calculator

Before you buy, see the price in the hours you would work to pay for it, at the pay that actually reaches your account.

## How it works

Enter the price and your **take-home pay**, the amount left after tax and deductions, per year, month, week or hour. Nothing here works out tax: it uses the figure you give.

Your hourly take-home is your pay divided by the hours you are paid for. A yearly figure is divided by hours a week times paid weeks a year; a monthly figure is multiplied by 12 first; a weekly figure is divided by your hours a week. The price divided by that hourly figure is the time it costs. Working days use your hours a week spread over the days you work, so 37.5 hours over 5 days is 7.5 hours a day.

Seeing a price as “a day and a half at work” can make it easier to decide whether something is worth it to you, or whether a cheaper, secondhand or repaired option would do.

## Questions

**Should I use pay before or after tax?**

After. You pay for things out of take-home pay, so that gives the honest number of hours. Use the amount on your payslip or bank statement.

**What if my hours change from week to week?**

Use an average over a few months, or enter an hourly take-home figure directly by choosing “an hour”.

**Are my pay details stored?**

No. The calculation runs in your browser and nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere; only your choice of currency symbol is remembered.