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How do I convert jobs where I have been paid per hour into annual salary for job app?

I am filling in a job application that is asking for my annual salary...
My last job I was paid £8 per hour...do I calculate my annual salary based on what I actually received? or what I would have got if I had worked fulltime? If so anyone any ideas how?

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  • alizee
    alizee Posts: 310 Forumite
    not sure if i am correct but if you do (hourly rate) * (hours worked) = thats your weekly pay
    then (weekly pay) * 52 (52 wks in a year) - your actual yearly salary.
  • dave4545454
    dave4545454 Posts: 2,025 Forumite
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    I am filling in a job application that is asking for my annual salary...
    My last job I was paid £8 per hour...do I calculate my annual salary based on what I actually received? or what I would have got if I had worked fulltime? If so anyone any ideas how?

    to get a thereabout yearly salary figure you multiply the hourly figure by 2 to give the answer in thousands

    £8 an hour roughly equals £16000 a year

    £5 an hour = £10000 a year

    £10 an hour = £20000 a year

    ...etc
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  • Hammyman
    Hammyman Posts: 9,913 Forumite

    Oh. My. God. This is absolutely basic elementary maths. Even my 10 year old son could work it out.
  • rodenal
    rodenal Posts: 831 Forumite
    That isn't very fair, nor very helpful. For the OP, as others have suggested take your hourly wage, multiply by hours worked per week and multiply this by 52 .

    For example £8 x 37.5 x 52 = £ 15,600
  • Hammyman - were you feeling condescending today or what? You may be bragging that even your 10 year old could work it out in order to make the OP feel small, but apart from that your response wasn't even remotely helpful. Shame on you and what a delightful lesson to teach your child - do you encourage he/she sneer that the less able in the classroom?

    OP, as an hourly part-timer myself, when asked for my salary I put my part time annual rate in (with P/T next to my job title). Follow Rodenal's maths, just change the 37.5 to your weekly hours.

    Hammyman - go and sit on the naughty step for 2 hours.
  • Hammyman wrote: »
    Oh. My. God. This is absolutely basic elementary maths. Even my 10 year old son could work it out.

    The OP asked for an app and I provided a link to one.

    There's no need to be rude and condesending, if you have nothing helpful to add how about not bothering to respond.
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,393 Forumite
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    I am filling in a job application that is asking for my annual salary...
    My last job I was paid £8 per hour...do I calculate my annual salary based on what I actually received? or what I would have got if I had worked fulltime? If so anyone any ideas how?

    £8 x 35hrs or 38 hrs or 45hrs per week depending on what you define as 'full time' x 52 weeks = gross annual salary. (Obviously if you regard full-time as 45 hrs per week this will inflate your notional salary)

    If you were part-time put the full-time salary down followed by pro rata.
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  • anamenottaken
    anamenottaken Posts: 4,198 Forumite
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    The OP asked for an app and I provided a link to one.

    There's no need to be rude and condesending, if you have nothing helpful to add how about not bothering to respond.

    The OP did not ask for "an app" nor did they ask for a formula for working out the figure. What they asked for was whether they used the actual amount they had earned or whether to gross it up to a full-time rate. Owain has answered the question in his second paragraph.
  • andy.m_2
    andy.m_2 Posts: 1,521 Forumite
    OP asked for help with a job app"lication".

    Are we allowed to be condesending again now? ;)
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