We talk with customers everyday who are confused about decimal hours(e.g. 4.25)and hours/minutes (e.g. 4:15). Here we go into the math on performing the decimal to hours/minutes conversion and the reasons why you one would want to do the conversion at all.
Kind of a big thing if you work with employee hours for payroll!
There is an awsome hours converter link at the bottom of this page, or just click here
The big thing to look for is a decimal point(.) or colon(:)
So our time cards page displays employee hours in the decimal hours format. Decimal hours can sometimes cause a bit of confusion for people who are used to looking at hours in the hh:mm format. Here are a few examples of decimal hours and how to interpret them…
They are more precise - decimal hours are almost 2 times more precise than minute hours. Minute hours have a maximum of 1/60 resolution, while decimal hours have a 1/100 resolution. Kinda technical, sorry.Decimal hours are easier to work with - Imagine trying to multiply 8:12 (which is 8 hours and 12 minutes) by an employee hourly rate. It’s much easier to multiply 8.20(or 8 hours and 12 minutes) by an hourly rate to calculate payroll.
While we could not find a lot of data on why the hh:mm format lasted so long we do have a few ideas…
We wanted to tell you that we built a nice converter for you, here it is...
Minutes To Hours Calculator
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