Convert a monthly salary into an hourly rate and back, using the 220-hour CLT base or your own.
Almost every salary in Brazil is quoted per month, while almost every comparison you want to make is per hour: overtime, an extra shift, a freelance gig on the side, two job offers with different workloads. The conversion is a single division, but the divisor is where people disagree. The classic CLT base is 220 hours a month, and it comes from a convention, not from a calendar count: 44 hours a week, the constitutional ceiling, multiplied by 5 weeks a month. Payroll systems have used that rounded figure for decades, which is why it appears on payslips even in months with fewer weeks.
Other contracts use other bases. A 40-hour week gives 200 hours a month, a 36-hour week gives 180, and part-time or custom schedules can land anywhere — so the base is a field here, not a hardcoded number. The converter works in both directions with the same arithmetic: divide the salary by the base to get the hourly rate, or multiply the hourly rate by the base to see what a freelance or contract rate would look like as a monthly salary. That second direction is the quickest sanity check when you are weighing an hourly offer against a job you already have.
The result also breaks the rate down into an 8-hour day, a full week at the chosen base and a single minute, which is mostly a curiosity but a useful one when you are pricing small tasks or measuring how much a habit costs in work time. Be clear about what the number is: a gross rate derived from the salary alone. It does not include the 13th salary, vacation plus the extra third, FGTS, overtime premiums, benefits or any payroll charge — and it is not a net figure after income tax and social security. Everything is computed in your browser; the salary you type never leaves the page.
Hourly rate = monthly salary ÷ monthly hours base · Monthly salary = hourly rate × monthly hours base. The CLT base of 220 h comes from 44 hours a week × 5 weeks a month. Example: 3,300 ÷ 220 = 15.00 per hour.
Divide the salary by the monthly hours base of your contract. A salary of R$ 3,300 on the standard 220-hour base is R$ 15.00 per hour.
Because payroll uses 44 hours a week × 5 weeks a month, a rounded convention rather than a literal count of the month's hours. It is the divisor used for overtime and other salary-derived amounts, regardless of how many weeks the month really has.
Use the 200-hour base. A 36-hour week uses 180 hours, and any other schedule can be typed into the custom field — weekly hours × 5 gives the monthly base.
No. It is the gross rate from the salary alone, before income tax and social security deductions, and it excludes the 13th salary, vacation bonus, FGTS and benefits. Your effective cost or earnings per hour is different from this figure.
No. The conversion runs entirely in JavaScript on your device — the value you type is never transmitted, logged or stored.
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