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Hours and minutes to decimal hours
Payroll and invoices often need time as a decimal, such as 7.75 hours. Convert in either direction.
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How it works
Decimal hours = hours + minutes divided by 60. To go back, the whole part is the hours and the fraction times 60 is the minutes. Leave the decimal box at 0 if you only want the first conversion.
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Why does 7:30 equal 7.5?
Thirty minutes is half an hour, and half of 1 is 0.5.
How do I convert 15 minutes?
15 divided by 60 is 0.25 hours.
Should I round?
Follow your payroll or billing policy. This calculator shows the unrounded value to four decimal places.
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