Calculate monthly wages from hourly wages

The advantage of the monthly wage

• A monthly wage is usually negotiated in those professions and / or companies in which there is usually little or no overtime.

• These are also mainly jobs that are always carried out at the same time. This means that primarily office jobs with a monthly wage are negotiated, since the working hours always take place during the day.

Advantages of hourly wages

• Professions, on the other hand, that are also carried out on weekends or on public holidays are usually negotiated at hourly wages.
• The point here is that all surcharges can be calculated more quickly in a simple way. This means that hourly wages are also negotiated in the companies in which shift work occurs.

Calculate the monthly wage from the hourly wage

If you are one of those workers who negotiated hourly wages and you want to but if you know how high your monthly wage will be, you can calculate it relatively easily:

1. First, share your weekly working time on the days of the week to be worked (usually five days). If you have fewer or more days, you can still count on 5 days.
2. Example: If you work 30 hours over four days, you would work 7.5 hours per day (actual working hours per day). To calculate the monthly wage, however, do not use the 7.5 hours per day, but spread your weekly working time over five days. This gives you six hours a day (calculated daily working time).
3. Each month has a different number of working days. This results from the holidays and the length of the months, among other things. For this reason, for the sake of simplicity, it was determined that a month has 22.5 working days (the average was calculated here).
4. Now take your hourly wage and multiply it by the calculated daily working time. Now multiply the result by 22.5 days per month and you can calculate your monthly wage from the hourly wage.