Ontario Hourly to Salary Calculator: Hourly Wage to Annual Pay and Take-Home

Ontario wages are usually quoted by the hour for retail, trades and shift work and by the year for office jobs, so comparing two Ontario offers often starts with converting one into the other. The calculator below turns an hourly rate into an annual salary or a salary into an hourly rate. Further down, a table shows what common Ontario hourly wages pay in a year and what is left after Ontario and federal income tax, the Ontario Health Premium, CPP and EI.

What the calculator assumes

You set the pay, the hours you work in a week and the weeks of unpaid vacation. The calculator multiplies the hourly rate by the hours and by the weeks you are paid for (52 less the unpaid weeks), and shows the weekly, biweekly, monthly and annual equivalents. Its figures are gross pay. If your vacation is paid, as it is for most salaried jobs, set unpaid weeks to zero. The formula, with worked examples for part-time hours and statutory holidays, is on the step-by-step salary calculation page; for every pay frequency at once, the national hourly to salary calculator does the same job with vacation counted in days.

Ontario hourly wages as salary and take-home pay

The gap between gross and take-home pay widens as the wage rises because each extra dollar is taxed at a higher marginal rate. To run a wage that isn’t in the table, the salary after tax calculator works out Ontario take-home pay for any salary, and the payroll deductions guide explains each deduction; how to read a pay stub walks through the lines on an Ontario statement.

Ontario’s minimum wage

Ontario’s general minimum wage is $17.95 an hour from October 1, 2026; the province reviews it each year, with any change taking effect on October 1. The student minimum wage is $16.90 an hour. In Ontario the student minimum wage is for students under 18 who work 28 hours a week or less while school is in session, or who work during a school break or the summer holidays; a student of any age who works as a homeworker gets the homeworker rate. The minimum wage page has the full conditions, and every province’s rates.

Ontario tax and the Health Premium

Ontario adds two items that most provinces don’t: the Ontario Health Premium, charged through the tax return on taxable income above a threshold, and a surtax on higher amounts of Ontario tax. Both are included in the take-home column above. Ontario’s brackets, credits and the surtax are explained on the Ontario income tax page.

Overtime and holidays in Ontario

Hourly employees in Ontario are paid overtime after a weekly threshold rather than a daily one, at a premium rate, with exemptions for some jobs. The current rules are in the overtime rules by province, and public holiday pay is covered in the statutory holidays guide. Overtime and holiday premiums add to the annual figures in the table, which assume a steady 40-hour week.

Ontario pay by city

What an Ontario wage buys depends heavily on the city. Average and median incomes for Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton and London show how local pay compares, and the Toronto cost of living page shows what the province’s most expensive city costs.

Other provinces

The same converter with each province’s tax and minimum wage is available for British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec. Whether an hourly or salaried job suits you better is covered in salary vs. hourly pay, and pay per paycheque in the biweekly paycheque calculator. All of the pay calculators are listed on the income calculators page.