Calculate gross biweekly pay from salary or hourly wages
A biweekly pay period covers two weeks. Salary mode uses your annual gross pay and pay-period frequency. Hourly mode uses the hourly rate, weekly hours, and optional overtime settings you enter to estimate a two-week gross amount.
Accuracy checks
Salary scenarios
Validation covers common pay-period frequencies, zero and boundary values, and consistency across annual and per-period gross-pay estimates.
Hourly scenarios
Validation covers regular hours, optional overtime, user-selected multipliers, and two-week totals across representative schedules.
Biweekly is not the same as semi-monthly
Biweekly usually means every two weeks, while semi-monthly means twice per month. That difference is why this calculator shows a separate semi-monthly equivalent instead of treating the terms as interchangeable.
Gross-pay limitation
This calculator does not estimate taxes, insurance, retirement contributions, garnishments, bonuses, commissions, or other payroll adjustments. It is designed for gross-pay comparisons.
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Confirm the pay schedule before comparing checks
Biweekly normally means 26 pay periods, while semimonthly normally means 24. For hourly pay, use the actual hours in each workweek and review premium hours by week when required. The result is gross pay and excludes taxes, deductions, and irregular earnings.
Use the pay stub's start and end dates for a real comparison. A first check, final check, unpaid absence, retroactive adjustment, bonus, commission, or reimbursement can make a period differ from the normal estimate. Compare base earnings and premium earnings separately before comparing the final gross amount.
For salary mode, confirm whether the annual figure is distributed across the entered number of periods. For hourly mode, confirm that the weekly hours are not an average hiding different overtime treatment between the two weeks.
Do not compare the estimate directly with the deposited amount. Start with gross earnings on the pay statement, then review taxes and deductions as separate reconciliation steps.
Read the biweekly versus semimonthly guide.