text: how do you average out your salary to figure out what you would've been if you were getting paid per hour?   you have to divide the salary by the number of hours worked to earn it. that's the only way!  if you get paid $4000 a month and you work 40 hours a week you have worked an average of 173.33 hours per month (40 hours/week times 52 weeks per year divided by 12 months), depending on your exact pay period. thus you would be making  a little more than $23 an hour.  the 2080 quoted by zandelia is just 40 hours per week times 52 weeks in a year or the number of hours worked in a standard year. however, as other people pointed out, you might work more than 40 hours weekly on salary... or less. what ever the number of hours worked in a pay period, divide the pay for that  period by the hours to get the answer!