Time

Salary Ticker

Turn your pay into a live, ticking number. Enter an hourly, daily, monthly, or yearly salary, then switch between today and this month to see what has accrued. It tracks clock-out countdowns, overtime pay, money earned while you were away, coffee and lunch conversions, a desktop widget, and a share card with a DevKitLab link. Settings and ledger data stay on your device.

  • Live per-second earnings counter with smooth animation
  • Today and this-month accrual ranges
  • Clock-out countdown, overtime pay, and stop-overtime control
  • Local ledger, privacy modes, desktop widget, and share card

Overview

It converts your pay into a per-second rate, then tracks it against your schedule, overtime state, and local ledger, with privacy controls, motivation tools, and a shareable card.

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    Per-second earnings, any pay period

    Enter an hourly, daily, monthly, or yearly salary and the tool folds in your hours per day and work days per month to derive an exact rate per second, then counts up live.

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    Tied to your real schedule

    Set clock-in and clock-out times so regular pay follows your workday, overtime can start after hours, and the counter can freeze overtime when you stop working.

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    Passive-income away card

    Leave the tab for a meeting or a coffee and a card greets you on return with how long you were gone and how much you earned in the meantime.

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    Overtime mode

    Stay past clock-out and the ticker switches to an overtime look, applies your multiplier, lets you stop overtime or clear the accrued overtime pay at any time, and writes regular pay and overtime pay separately to the local ledger.

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    Real-world conversions

    Your running total is translated into coffees, lunches, movie tickets, and more, and you can add a custom goal to see how close you are to that thing you are saving for.

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    Privacy modes and a boss key

    Switch the big number to no-symbol, percent, or pure countdown, or tap the boss key to mask everything instantly when someone walks by.

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    Pin a desktop widget

    Pop out a small desktop-gadget window showing a privacy-safe countdown and progress; click it to cycle through countdown, percent, amount, no-symbol, and hidden. Chrome has the cleanest always-on-top behavior; other browsers may only allow a coverable popup with an address bar.

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    Share card, fully local

    Generate a shareable image for today or this month with a DevKitLab link. Salary, settings, and ledger history stay in this browser and are never uploaded.

How to use

Enter your pay once and the dashboard does the rest. Adjust schedule, privacy, and extras to taste.

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    Pick your currency and type your salary, then choose whether it is per hour, day, month, or year.

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    Set your work days per month, hours per day, and your clock-in and clock-out times.

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    Choose gross or net pay, and for gross add an estimated take-home percentage.

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    Press Start, then switch between today and this month as the total updates.

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    Switch privacy mode or tap the boss key when you need to hide the amount.

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    Stop overtime when the day ends, pin the desktop widget, set a savings goal, or share a card.

Details

The ticker is meant to be playful and private at the same time. A few settings change how it feels and how much it reveals.

  • Use net pay with a take-home percentage to watch the number that actually lands in your pocket.
  • Turn on overtime mode with a multiplier, then stop overtime when work is done so the local ledger stays closer to reality.
  • Enable the coin sound and choose how much has to accrue before the next chime.
  • Default the desktop widget to countdown so a glance never exposes your salary to people nearby.
  • Add a goal like a camera or a trip to turn idle minutes into visible progress toward it.
  • Use the boss key as a one-tap mask whenever a screen is visible to others.

Use cases

Part motivation, part stress relief, part party trick — a live earnings counter reframes the workday in a way a paystub never does.

  1. Make time-off feel earned

    Stepping away for lunch or a break feels better when you come back to a card showing you still earned money while you were gone.

  2. Stay motivated to clock out

    The countdown and progress bar make the end of the day tangible, and overtime mode makes extra hours visible instead of invisible.

  3. Visualize a savings goal

    Tie the ticker to something you want and every working minute becomes measurable progress toward it.

  4. A fun desktop companion

    Pin the floating widget beside your work and keep a quiet countdown to clock-out in the corner of your screen.

  5. Share the moment

    Export a clean share card with a DevKitLab link so coworkers or friends can find the same tool after the joke lands.

  6. Sanity-check a rate

    Convert a monthly or yearly figure into a real per-hour and per-second rate to compare offers or freelance pricing at a glance.

See also

If you work across regions and want to line up clock-in and clock-out times with teammates, the World Clock shows current time in multiple cities. To count working days in a month or measure a stretch between two dates, use the Date Calculator , and when you need to convert a raw Unix time into a readable moment, the Timestamp Converter does it instantly.

Best practices

A live salary counter is for fun and motivation. A couple of habits keep it accurate and discreet.

  • Enter net pay, or a realistic take-home percentage, so the number reflects what you actually receive.
  • Match the clock-in and clock-out times to your real schedule so the workday progress and countdown stay meaningful.
  • Stop overtime when you actually stop working so monthly overtime totals stay useful later.
  • Keep the desktop widget on countdown mode in shared spaces so a glance never reveals your salary.
  • Use the boss key reflexively before screen-sharing or when someone is reading over your shoulder.
  • Treat the figures as estimates; the tool does not model bonuses, deductions, or progressive tax brackets.

Limitations

This is a playful estimator, not a payroll or tax calculator. A few things to keep in mind.

  • It does not compute precise income tax, social insurance, or progressive brackets; take-home is a flat percentage you set.
  • Earnings are derived from your stated schedule, not from any real time-tracking or employer system.
  • The always-on-top widget mode needs a recent Chromium-based desktop browser; where it is unavailable it falls back to the coverable popup window.
  • Settings and ledger data live in this browser only, so clearing site data, clearing local data, or switching devices starts fresh.
  • The number is meant to motivate and amuse, not to be a financial or legal record of pay.

FAQ

Common questions about accuracy, privacy, and the desktop widget.

How is the per-second amount calculated?

The tool converts your salary into an hourly rate using your hours per day and work days per month, then divides by 3,600 to get a per-second rate. It only counts time between your clock-in and clock-out, so the total reflects the actual workday.

Is my salary sent anywhere?

No. Everything runs in your browser tab. Your salary, settings, local ledger, and daily overtime records are stored only in this browser's local storage and are never uploaded to a server.

Does it keep counting if I refresh or come back tomorrow?

Yes. Settings and the local ledger are saved. Today is recomputed from your schedule and current time, while this-month totals prefer saved daily ledger entries and only estimate workdays that have no record.

What is the desktop widget?

Pin to desktop opens a small widget showing a privacy-safe countdown and progress; click it to switch between countdown, percent, amount, no-symbol, and hidden. It has two modes: always-on-top (cleanest, no address bar, floats over everything, via Document Picture-in-Picture in recent Chrome and Edge) and a coverable popup other windows can hide. Switch in settings; always-on-top is the default.

How do the privacy modes work?

You can switch the big number to hide the currency symbol, show only a percentage of the workday, or show a pure countdown with no money at all. The boss key masks everything with one tap, and the desktop widget defaults to countdown so a glance never reveals your pay.

Can I see take-home pay instead of gross?

Yes. Choose net to enter an after-tax figure directly, or choose gross and set an estimated take-home percentage so the ticker shows roughly what lands in your pocket.

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