$71.00 an hour at 40 hours a week is how much a year?

$71/hour at 40 hours a week

$147,680a year, before tax

$12,307 a month · $5,680 every two weeks · $2,840 a week

A year71/hour × 40 hours × 52 weeks	$147,680
A monthannual ÷ 12, not four weeks of pay	$12,307
Every two weeks26 paychecks a year	$5,680
A week	$2,840
A day8 hours a day over five days	$568
Hours worked a year40 × 52	2,080
If unpaid time off48 paid weeks — $11,360 less than the headline figure	$136,320

Notes

$71 an hour at 40 hours a week is $147,680 a year before tax. The arithmetic is 71 × 40 × 52 — and the 52 is where most of the disagreement between calculators comes from.
The 52 assumes you are paid for every week of the year. Salaried work usually is; hourly work often is not. Take two weeks of vacation and ten public holidays with no paid leave and you are paid for 48 weeks, which makes the real figure $136,320 — $11,360 lower. Neither number is wrong; they answer different questions, and which one applies to you is written in your offer letter, not in a calculator.
A month is not four weeks. Four weekly paychecks is $11,360, but a year has 52 weeks rather than 48, so the true monthly average is $12,307. Paid every two weeks you get 26 cheques, and twice a year that means three cheques in one calendar month — the two months that make a budget look wrong in both directions.
Overtime starts past 40 hours in a week, not past 80 in a fortnight, and it is paid at one and a half times the rate for non-exempt workers. At 40 hours there is none, but a single busy week crossing 40 triggers it.
Before tax is roughly 28% above what lands, depending on the state. Federal income tax, Social Security at 6.2% and Medicare at 1.45% come out of every cheque regardless of where you live; state income tax swings the rest, from nothing in nine states to over 9% at the top in California and Oregon.

The short answer

$71.00 an hour at 40 hours a week is $147,680 a year before tax — $12,307 a month, $5,680 every two weeks, $2,840 a week.

The arithmetic is 71.00 × 40 × 52. The 52 is where calculators quietly disagree with each other.

The number most calculators get wrong

$147,680 assumes you are paid for every week of the year.

Salaried work usually is. Hourly work often is not. Take two weeks off and ten public holidays with no paid leave and you are paid for 48 weeks, not 52:

	A year
Paid 52 weeks	$147,680
Paid 48 weeks	$136,320
Difference	$11,360

Neither figure is wrong. They answer different questions, and which one applies to you is a line in your offer letter — paid time off, or none.

A month is not four weeks

Four weekly cheques is less than a month's pay. A year has 52 weeks, not 48, so the true monthly average is $12,307.

Paid every two weeks you receive 26 cheques a year, which means twice a year a calendar month contains three of them. Those two months make a budget built on "two cheques a month" look wrong in both directions, and it is the most common reason people believe their pay changed when it did not.

Overtime

Hours past forty in a week are paid at one and a half times the regular rate for non-exempt workers — $106.5 an hour here.

The threshold is forty hours in a week. Eighty hours across a fortnight with fifty in the first week and thirty in the second still earns ten hours of overtime. Employers who average across the pay period are getting it wrong, and job title does not determine whether a role is exempt — duties and salary level do.

What lands after tax

Roughly $147,680 gross becomes meaningfully less in hand. Federal income tax, Social Security at 6.2% and Medicare at 1.45% come out wherever you live; state income tax runs from nothing in nine states to over 9% at the top in California and Oregon.

The gap between gross and net at this income is usually between 15% and 30%, and the state you live in decides most of the spread.

Nearby sizes

$40 an Hour Is $83,200 a Year — Before Anything Comes OutThe multiply-by-2080 answer is the easy part. The number that matters is what survives federal tax, FICA and whatever the state takes.
How to Convert Salary to Hourly Rate: Divide by 2,080 — Then Divide by Real HoursDivide by 2,080 and you get the advertised hourly equivalent. Divide by the hours actually worked and you get the real one, and the two are rarely close.
$30 an Hour Is $62,400 a Year — About $49,000 After TaxSixty-two thousand four hundred. It is roughly the national mean for a carpenter, and comfortably above it for a roofer or a painter.
How Overtime Pay Is Calculated: 1.5× Over 40 Hours in a WeekTime and a half over forty hours in a week — federal law. The part that catches people is what counts as the regular rate, because it is not always the hourly rate on the offer.