How do I work out what my hour is worth?

A simple starting point is your yearly income divided by about 2,080 working hours (40 hours x 52 weeks). If you freelance, use your billable rate. For personal decisions many people value leisure hours somewhere below their work rate; the calculator lets you set any number.

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Is It Worth Your Time?

Put an honest number on your hour. Then check whether that time-saving purchase, service, or shortcut actually pays for itself.
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What your hour is worth $ per hour

Or work it out from a yearly income

Yearly income ($) ÷ 2,080 working hours → sets the hourly rate above

The thing you're weighing up

What it costs $ total

Time it saves you hours

Worth it

The 2 hours it saves are worth $60 to you, and it costs $50. You come out $10 ahead. Break-even: your hour would only need to be worth $25.

That $50 equals 1.7 hours of your time

One hour of yours is worth $30

Here's the uncomfortable follow-up. If your hour is worth real money, the most expensive thing you own is the hour that disappears without a decision: the drift into a feed or "just one video" that nobody priced, nobody chose, and nobody got anything for.

Hawser guards exactly those hours on your PC. It can tell working from wandering, and it steps in the moment your time starts leaking, before the hour is gone.

See how Hawser works

How this is calculated

Value of the time saved = hours saved × your hourly rate. If that value beats the cost, the verdict is "worth it," and the break-even figure shows the hourly rate at which the decision flips. The salary helper divides yearly income by 2,080 hours (40 × 52). One honest caveat: a saved hour only pays off if you actually use it for something you value. Everything runs locally in your browser.