Hours of Work Calculator
WIT turns any price into the hours of work it actually costs you — and then lets you work those hours off, one timer at a time.
Coming soon to the App Store.
WIT turns any price into the hours of work it actually costs you — and then lets you work those hours off, one timer at a time.
Coming soon to the App Store.
A price tells you what a thing costs the shop to sell. It doesn't tell you what it costs you. Two people looking at the same £180 pair of headphones are not making the same decision — for one it's an afternoon, for the other it's the better part of a week.
An hours-of-work calculator fixes that by re-denominating the price in the only currency that's the same for everyone: time. You have a fixed number of hours, you sell some of them, and everything you buy is paid for out of that pile. WIT does the conversion continuously, for everything on your list, and keeps the running total in front of you.
The maths is trivial — price divided by hourly rate — but the hourly rate is where people go wrong. Gross salary over contracted hours is too generous: tax hasn't come out, and unpaid breaks are hours you're at work without being paid for them.
WIT builds the number properly during a three-step setup:
If you already know your take-home hourly rate, one toggle skips the estimating entirely.
Most conversion tools stop at the number. WIT keeps going: add the thing to your wish list and it becomes something you can work toward. Start the timer when you clock on — or turn on auto-track and let it run itself during your working hours — and the item fills up in front of you as a percentage.
Reach 100% and the app stops everything to tell you exactly how many hours of your life went into it. Then it asks the only question that matters: buy it, or keep it on the list?
Everything WIT shows is an estimate built from the numbers you give it. The tax slider is a rough take-home approximation, not a tax calculation — it doesn't know your jurisdiction, brackets or allowances, and it should never be used for tax or payroll purposes. It's there to get you to a realistic hourly figure so the hours mean something. The decisions are still yours.
Divide the price by what you actually take home per hour. The catch is that most people don't know their real hourly rate — gross salary divided by contracted hours is not it, because tax comes out and unpaid breaks don't count.
WIT works the number out for you from a salary and an estimated tax percentage, or takes your hourly rate directly if you already know it.
Money is an abstraction that gets easier to spend the more of it you have. Hours are not — everyone has the same number of them and nobody gets more. "£180" is a number; "two and a half days at work" is a decision. Converting the price is the whole point: it makes the trade you're actually making visible before you make it.
Yes. Enter a monthly or yearly figure and WIT converts it using the work hours, work days and break you set up. If the figure is gross, a tax slider estimates what you keep; if it's already take-home, you can say so and skip the estimate.
Only if you want it to be. WIT is free to download and free forever for one wish-list item, with every feature included. Premium unlocks an unlimited wish list and is offered as a yearly subscription ($19.99, with a 7-day free trial), a monthly one ($2.99), or a one-time Lifetime purchase ($49.99). There are no ads.