The salary timer
for every second you work.
This free salary timer turns your pay into a live counter — per second, per minute, per hour. Type it in once, then watch the number climb through meetings, coffee breaks and that last impossible hour before clock-out.
🏺 Savings jar
🎁 Wishlist
- 🎧Noise-cancelling headphones4.8 h
- 🎫Concert ticket3.2 h
- 🏝️Weekend away13.9 h
💸 This month, honestly
You work 160 hours a month.
You feel about four of them.
A salary timer exists because money and time are the two things we're worst at feeling. Here's what that costs you — and why watching a live counter changes how a working day feels.
Payday amnesia
Thirty days of effort arrive as one number in your bank app, already spoken for by rent. The work itself never feels like it added up to anything.
The 3pm slump
Three hours left and no way to feel progress. The clock moves, the counter doesn't — so the afternoon just feels like a long grey nothing.
“Can we grab 15 minutes?”
Meetings are free at the moment you accept them. You only find out what that half hour cost when the month is over and nothing moved.
Overtime that vanishes
Four extra evenings, one slightly bigger payslip, zero sense of which hours produced it. Extra effort disappears into the average.
Savings are abstract
“Save $2,000” is a number with no weight. “74 hours of my life” is something you can actually decide about.
You don't know your real rate
Salary ÷ 2,080 is not your hourly rate if you work 47 hours a week and answer Slack on Sundays. Most people are paid less per hour than they think.
A salary timer that knows how work actually works
Most salary calculators assume a tidy 9-to-5. Real jobs have unpaid lunch breaks, rotating shifts, holiday schedules, tips, overtime and days you'd rather forget. This free salary timer handles all of it — see also how salary timers work.
A live counter, down to the second
Your salary per second is calculated from your actual schedule — not a generic 2,080-hour year. The number updates continuously while you're on paid time, so a two-hour meeting has a visible price and the last hour of a shift has a visible finish line.
Schedules for real jobs, not brochures
Five-day week, four-day week, six-day week, or pick your own days. Add public holidays and one-off days off. If you work nights, set a shift that crosses midnight — the timer follows it. Your hourly rate is recalculated the moment your schedule changes, because a 4-day week pays a very different hourly rate than a 5-day one.
Unpaid breaks, handled honestly
Add as many breaks as your day really has: lunch, the school run, the gym, the 20 minutes you spend making coffee. The counter freezes during them. No fake numbers, no pretending your lunch break is billable.
Overtime, tips and bonuses
After clock-out the timer can keep running at 1.25×, 1.5× or 2×, so late evenings are worth something visible. Tips, commission and one-off bonuses can be added in a tap and roll straight into your month total.
Payday countdown & a savings jar
Set your payday and the site tells you how many days, hours and shifts are left. Then pick a savings rate and watch a little jar fill with every paid second — the only savings account that fills while you're sitting in a meeting.
A wishlist priced in hours
Add the things you're actually saving for. Every item shows its price in hours of your life, and a progress bar fills as you earn. “$120 concert ticket” becomes “3.5 hours” — which is a completely different decision.
Privacy mode for open offices
One tap blurs every number on screen. Handy when you're on a train, in a shared desk, or showing a colleague the timer without showing them your salary.
Built for anyone whose time has a price
If you're paid for hours — any hours, in any arrangement — this was made for you. Shift workers can jump to the shift worker salary timer, or read the shift work guide first.
Nurses & shift workers
Twelve-hour shifts, rotating patterns, night differentials. Set the shift once and the timer follows your rota.
Retail & hospitality
Variable hours, tips, split shifts. Watch a Sunday shift turn into a number you can actually plan with.
Salaried 9-to-5ers
The classic case: a fixed salary, a fixed schedule, and no idea what an hour of your life is worth.
Freelancers & contractors
Know your true hourly rate before you quote. Add unpaid admin time and the real number gets honest fast.
Remote & hybrid workers
When work and home blur, a visible counter draws the line back at 5:30.
Students & part-timers
Four hours after class, one visible total. Suddenly a shift is worth more than “a bit of cash”.
Four moments where the number changes your mind
A salary timer isn't really about money. It's about seeing the trade you're making while you're still allowed to make it.
2:47pm, the meeting has no end
You glance at the tab: $96.20 earned, 42% of the shift gone. The meeting isn't more bearable — but it's finally measurable. You leave on time, because you can see what staying costs.
“Can you cover Saturday?”
Instead of guessing, you check the real rate: an eight-hour Saturday at 1.5× is worth $415. Now it's a decision about a weekend, not a vague favour.
The $1,800 trip
The wishlist turns it into 52 hours. Four working days. Somehow that's easier to commit to than a number on a savings app — and the jar fills every single shift.
Two job offers
$62k with a 45-minute commute versus $58k from your spare room. Run both through the timer with real hours. The higher salary is often the lower rate.
“I used to think my salary was fine. Then I worked out it was $19.40 an hour after the commute, the unpaid lunch and the 47-hour weeks. I asked for a raise two weeks later.”
Twenty seconds to set up. Then it just runs.
Tell it what you earn
Yearly, monthly or hourly — whichever you actually know. Pick your currency. That's the only number it needs.
Tell it when you work
Working days, start and finish times, unpaid breaks, holidays. Add overtime rules if you get them.
Watch, and go back to work
The counter runs only during paid time. Leave the tab open, or check in at lunch — it's always mid-sentence.
Everything people ask before they start
Short answers, no small print.
What exactly is a salary timer?
How does it calculate my salary per second?
How do I work out my hourly rate from an annual salary?
Does it count my lunch break as paid time?
Can I use it if I'm paid hourly instead of a salary?
Does it handle overtime and shift work?
Is my salary data private?
Do I need to install an app or create an account?
Is a salary timer accurate enough to rely on?
Can freelancers use it for billing?
Why does watching money tick up actually help?
Guides that make the salary timer clearer
Short reads on the math behind a live salary timer — then jump back to the free tool above when you're ready to start the clock.
The rest of the toolbox
Your next hour is already worth something.
Set it up once and watch it. It takes twenty seconds, costs nothing, and you'll never look at 4:45pm the same way.
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