Time-price calculator

Money is Time

You don’t pay for things with money. You pay with the hours you worked to earn it.

Your pay
£

Add your age to see purchases against the working hours you have left.

The purchase
£
Time price

Your hour is worth
Total working hours
£1 costs you
Share of your working year
How this works

Money is Time turns a price into the working time it takes to earn it. Enter your salary or hourly pay and your weekly hours, and the calculator works out your hourly rate, then converts any purchase into minutes, hours, days or weeks of work. Switch to take-home pay to count it against what actually lands in your bank after income tax, National Insurance, pension contributions and student loan repayments.

Set a purchase as a habit to see its cost per year and per decade, add your age to weigh it against the working hours left before retirement, and pin one result to compare it with another. Everything runs in your browser and nothing you enter is sent anywhere.

Assumes 52 paid weeks and a 9:00am start. Take-home figures use GOV.UK 2026/27 rates for England & Wales; minimum wage £12.71/hr from April 2026. A rough guide for thinking, not financial advice.

Money is Time is provided free of charge by Notla Ventures Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 16673455. © 2026 Notla Ventures Limited.

Terms of Use

Last updated: 14 July 2026

1. Who we are

Money is Time ("the tool") is provided by Notla Ventures Limited ("we", "us", "our"), a company registered in England and Wales with company number 16673455. Our registered office is at 144 Walter Road, Swansea, SA1 5RW. You can contact us at contact@notlaventures.com.

2. These terms

By using the tool you agree to these Terms of Use, together with our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the tool. The tool is provided free of charge.

3. What the tool does

The tool converts a price you enter into an estimate of the working time needed to earn that amount, based on the pay, hours and other figures you provide. It uses simplified assumptions, including: 52 paid weeks a year; a 9:00am start to the working day; income tax and National Insurance rates and thresholds for England and Wales for the 2026/27 tax year; a standard tax code; annualised National Insurance thresholds; a simplified treatment of workplace pension contributions (a net pay arrangement); standard student loan repayment thresholds; and, where you enter an age, a flat projection of your current pay and hours to your chosen retirement age. Its outputs are estimates and illustrations only and will not exactly match your payslip or your personal tax position.

4. Not advice

The tool provides general information and illustrations only. It does not provide financial, investment, tax, pensions, debt or legal advice, and nothing it produces is a personal recommendation or an assessment of your circumstances. No adviser and client relationship is created by your use of the tool. Notla Ventures Limited is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. You should not make financial decisions in reliance on the tool. Check figures against official sources such as GOV.UK, or take advice from a suitably qualified professional, before acting.

5. Your inputs

Calculations run entirely in your browser. We do not receive, see or store the figures or descriptions you enter. See our Privacy Policy for details, including how the optional share-link feature works.

6. Accuracy and currency

We take reasonable care to keep the figures used by the tool up to date. Statutory figures reflect the position as at 14 July 2026, including 2026/27 income tax, National Insurance and student loan thresholds and the National Living Wage in force from 1 April 2026. Rates and thresholds change, typically each April, and we do not warrant that the tool or its outputs are accurate, complete or current at the time you use it.

7. Availability

We may modify, suspend or withdraw the tool at any time without notice. We do not guarantee that it will be available, uninterrupted or free of errors.

8. Acceptable use

You must use the tool only for lawful purposes. You must not:

9. Intellectual property

The tool and its content, including its text, design, graphics and underlying code, are owned by us or our licensors. You may use the tool, and share individual results and links it produces, for personal, non-commercial purposes. You must not otherwise copy, reproduce, adapt or redistribute the tool or substantial parts of its content without our prior written permission.

10. Our liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the law of England and Wales.

Subject to that: the tool is provided free of charge, "as is" and "as available"; to the fullest extent permitted by law we exclude all conditions, warranties and representations that might otherwise be implied; and we will not be liable for any loss or damage, including financial loss, arising from your use of, reliance on, or inability to use the tool or its outputs. If you use the tool as a consumer, nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights. If you use the tool in the course of a business, we will in any event have no liability to you for loss of profits, loss of business, business interruption or loss of business opportunity.

11. Third-party resources

Any references or links to third-party websites or resources, such as GOV.UK, are provided for convenience only. We do not endorse and are not responsible for their content.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The current version, with its last updated date, will always be available from the tool. Your continued use of the tool after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

13. General

If any provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force. A failure by us to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. These terms do not create any rights enforceable by third parties under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

14. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales will have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may also bring proceedings in your local courts, and you keep the benefit of any mandatory consumer protections under the law of the part of the United Kingdom in which you live.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 14 July 2026

1. Who we are

Notla Ventures Limited ("we", "us", "our"), company number 16673455, registered office 144 Walter Road, Swansea, SA1 5RW, is the data controller for this tool. You can contact us about privacy at contact@notlaventures.com.

2. The short version

The tool has no accounts, no sign-up and no forms. Nothing you type into it is sent to us, and the tool loads nothing from third-party services: no third-party fonts, scripts, trackers or embedded content. The only personal data involved in running the tool is the technical data your browser sends to our hosting provider when it requests the page, which is used for aggregate analytics and security as described below.

3. Your calculator inputs

The figures and descriptions you enter are processed entirely in your browser. They are not transmitted to us or to anyone else, are not stored anywhere, and exist only in the page's memory until you leave or refresh the page.

If you use the share-link feature, your inputs are encoded in the link itself, in the part after the # symbol. Browsers do not send that part of a link to any server, including ours, so the figures stay within the link. Only share such links with people you are happy to see those figures.

4. Hosting and analytics

The tool is hosted by Netlify, and we use Netlify Web Analytics, which is server-side. It places no cookies, scripts or other technology on your device. When your browser requests the page, Netlify's servers process technical data as part of serving it: your IP address, browser and device information (the user agent), the pages requested, the referring page and timestamps. We see only aggregated statistics produced from that data, such as pageviews, counts of unique visitors, top pages, top sources and country-level locations, covering a rolling period of around 30 days. We cannot identify you from the statistics we see.

5. Lawful basis

We rely on legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR): understanding how the tool is used in aggregate and keeping it secure and working well. Given the minimal technical data involved, the short retention period and the absence of any profiling, we consider this does not override your rights and freedoms. You can object by contacting us.

6. International transfers

Netlify, Inc. is based in the United States. Where technical data such as IP addresses is transferred outside the UK, the transfer relies on safeguards recognised under UK data protection law, such as the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the recipient is certified, or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or Addendum, as described in Netlify's privacy documentation.

7. What we do not do

We do not send marketing, show advertising, sell or share personal data for value, set cookies, load fonts or other resources from third-party services, build profiles of visitors, or carry out automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.

8. Retention

We do not hold personal data about visitors ourselves. The aggregated statistics we see are anonymous. Our hosting provider retains the underlying technical log data for a limited period in accordance with its own retention policies.

9. Your rights

Under the UK GDPR you have rights over your personal data, including rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and, where applicable, portability. Because we cannot identify you from the data available to us, we may be unable to link a request to any data (Article 11 UK GDPR), but we will always respond and explain the position. If you have a concern, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

10. Children

The tool is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone, children included.

11. Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. The current version, with its last updated date, will always be available from the tool.

Cookies Policy

Last updated: 14 July 2026

1. No cookies

This tool does not set cookies. It also does not use local storage, session storage, tracking pixels, device fingerprinting or any similar technology on your device.

2. Analytics without cookies

We measure visits using Netlify Web Analytics, which works from server logs rather than by placing anything on your device. According to Netlify, site activity is measured without cookies or personally identifying information. That is why the tool does not show a cookie consent banner: there is nothing to consent to.

3. Third parties

No third-party cookies are set through this tool, and the tool loads no resources from third-party services. Its typefaces are your device's built-in fonts or font files served from our own hosting. Details of the data involved in serving pages are in our Privacy Policy.

4. If this changes

If we ever introduce cookies or similar technologies, we will update this policy and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent before setting any non-essential cookies.

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