Decimal Hours Converter
Time ↔ decimal hours for payroll and billing. Read a military time (0830) as decimal (8.5) or turn decimal hours into a clean time.
Time → Decimal
Convert a time to decimal hours
Decimal hours
8.50
8 hours 30 minutes
Decimal → Time
Decimal hours to military time
Time
0830
8:30 AM
How to read decimal hours
Payroll often expresses hours as decimals. 30 minutes = 0.50, 15 min = 0.25, 45 min = 0.75. Military time (0830) becomes decimal (8.5) by dividing minutes by 60.
- 0830 → 8.50 hours
- 8.5 → 8 hours 30 minutes → 0830
- 1200 → 12.00
- 1745 → 17.75