Hourly Wage and Working Time Calculator

Your payslip shows a monthly amount, the job ad an hourly wage, and the side job something else entirely. You can only compare them once everything is in the same unit. That is exactly what this calculator does: type in your gross pay and your weekly hours, and the result appears straight away, no button and no waiting.

There are several ways to get from a monthly to an hourly figure, and all of them are used in practice. The most common is the 13-week method: a quarter has 13 weeks, so you take monthly pay times 3, divided by 13, divided by the weekly hours. Many employment contracts use the rounded rule of thumb of 4.33 weeks per month, and the German public sector under TVöD and TV-L divides by 4.348 times the weekly hours. The calculator shows all three side by side so you see how small or large the difference is for you.

The statutory minimum wage in Germany is 13.90 euros gross per hour in 2026 and rises to 14.60 euros on 1 January 2027, as set by the Fifth Minimum Wage Adjustment Ordinance. The calculator checks your hourly wage against both. If it falls short, you see how much is missing per hour and per month, along with next steps: talking to your employer, the Federal Labour Ministry minimum wage hotline, and the fact that cut-off clauses in your contract do not apply to the minimum wage.

For net pay per hour the calculator uses the same wage tax and social contribution calculation as our Brutto-Netto calculator. You choose your tax class and children, and optionally your federal state, church tax and age. Along the way the calculator recognises whether your pay is a Minijob, a Midijob in the transition zone or a regular job, and explains what that means for your deductions.

For a Minijob everything depends on the minimum wage: the limit is the minimum wage times 130 divided by 3, rounded up to full euros. That gives 603 euros a month for 2026 and 633 euros for 2027 (§ 8 (1a) SGB IV). The calculator shows the formula and works out how many hours per month and per week fit under the limit at your hourly wage. For comparison it lists the minimum apprentice pay, which is 724 euros in the first year for apprenticeships starting in 2026.

The second part is a working time calculator. Enter start, end and break for one day or a whole week and get your working time in hours and minutes, as a decimal and in industrial minutes. The calculator checks the rules of the Working Hours Act: a 30-minute break after 6 hours, 45 minutes after 9 hours, at most 8 and exceptionally 10 hours a day, 11 hours of rest between two working days, plus notes on night and Sunday work. Overtime and missing hours against your contract are shown too, and you copy the weekly table into your spreadsheet with one click.

All figures are guide values to help you understand and prepare, not legal or tax advice. What counts is your payslip, your employment or collective agreement and, in a dispute, the labour court. What you type stays in your browser.