Hours to Minutes Converter
Convert hours to minutes by multiplying by 60. Includes a table for timesheets and shift planning, how to handle decimal hours like 7.75, and worked payroll examples.
Hours to Minutes
What this page does
Enter a duration in hours and read it back in minutes. The usual reason is timesheets and billing: work is recorded in decimal hours but paid, scheduled or invoiced in minutes, and the two notations look alike enough to be mixed up.
The formula
Conversion table
| Hours (h) | Minutes (min) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 60 |
| 2 | 120 |
| 3 | 180 |
| 5 | 300 |
| 10 | 600 |
| 20 | 1,200 |
| 50 | 3,000 |
| 100 | 6,000 |
| 250 | 15,000 |
| 500 | 30,000 |
| 1,000 | 60,000 |
Decimal hours are not hours and minutes
This is the error worth guarding against. 7.5 hours is 7 hours 30 minutes, not 7 hours 50 minutes. The digits after the decimal point are hundredths of an hour, not minutes.
To read a decimal hour as hours and minutes, multiply the fractional part by 60:
- 0.1 h = 6 min
- 0.25 h = 15 min
- 0.33 h = 19.8 min — not 33 minutes
- 0.5 h = 30 min
- 0.75 h = 45 min
- 0.8 h = 48 min
So a timesheet entry of 7.25 h is 7 h 15 min, and an entry of 7 h 25 min should be written as 7.42 h, not 7.25 h. Getting these the wrong way round over a month of entries moves a payroll total by hours.
Working time in minutes
- 1 h = 60 min
- 7.5 h standard working day = 450 min
- 8 h working day = 480 min
- 37.5 h working week = 2,250 min
- 40 h working week = 2,400 min
If you are converting a pay rate rather than a duration, the hourly-to-salary calculator handles the yearly arithmetic directly.
Credits
Conversions are powered by the extremely fast and precise open-source convert.js library. The table above is generated from that same library at build time, so it cannot disagree with the tool.