A free annual budget calculator — see the true yearly cost of every habit

Annual Budget Calculator

An annual budget calculator adds up everything that recurs over a full year — your income, your expenses, your savings and your investments — no matter how often each one happens. Zooming out to the year reveals the real cost of small daily and weekly habits, and shows whether your yearly income truly covers your yearly life.

  • 100% free
  • Private by design
  • Full-year totals
  • Multi-currency budgeting

01— The basics

What is an annual budget?

An annual budget is the 12-month view of your money. Instead of planning one month at a time, it totals every recurring income, expense, savings contribution and investment over a whole year. That longer lens smooths out the bumps — a quarterly insurance bill, an annual subscription, a once-a-year bonus — and shows whether, across all 365 days, you earn more than you spend.

The annual view is also where small habits become honest. A $5 daily coffee is easy to dismiss in a monthly budget; multiplied across a year it becomes $1,825, and that number is harder to ignore.

Annual income

Every income source totalled across 12 months — salary, side work, benefits.

Annual expenses

Every recurring cost totalled across the year — rent, groceries, transport, subscriptions.

Annual savings

Every contribution to savings and investments added up over the full year.

Annual remaining

Income minus expenses minus savings — what is truly left across the year.

02— The conversion

How recurring amounts add up over a year

To build an annual total, each income and expense is converted to a yearly basis using its real frequency. Clear Budget uses a precise annual basis (a year equals 365.2425 days and 52.1775 weeks) so the annual figure stays consistent with the daily, weekly and monthly views shown alongside it.

Daily → Annual

A daily 5 becomes about 1,826 a year — the true yearly cost of a small daily habit.

Weekly → Annual

A weekly 70 becomes about 3,652 a year — groceries or transport scaled to the year.

Monthly → Annual

A monthly 1,200 becomes 14,400 a year — rent or a mortgage seen over 12 months.

Biweekly → Annual

A biweekly 2,000 becomes about 52,178 a year — every 14 days, about 26.09 pay periods per average year.

Enter each item the way it actually occurs and Clear Budget shows the annual total next to the daily, weekly and monthly figures. For the closer-in views, see the Daily Budget Calculator, Weekly Budget Calculator and Monthly Budget Calculator pages.

03— A simple example

An annual budget example

Take a household with a monthly take-home salary of $3,500, monthly rent of $1,300, weekly groceries of $150, a monthly subscription of $20 and a monthly savings transfer of $300. Here is how those recurring amounts add up across a year.

Annual income

$42,000

$3,500 × 12

Annual expenses

$18,827

Rent + groceries + subs

Annual savings

$3,600

$300 × 12

Annual remaining

$19,573

Left across the year

Across the year the household earns $42,000, spends about $18,827 on recurring costs, saves $3,600, and still has roughly $19,573 remaining — money free for irregular costs, extra goals or simply a wider margin of safety.

04— The tool

How Clear Budget helps you build an annual view

Clear Budget is a free budget calculator that shows an annual column alongside daily, weekly and monthly totals. Enter your income, expenses and savings the way they actually occur, and the annual figure updates live — no manual multiplication, no spreadsheet. Everything stays private in your browser, with no account needed.

Live annual totals

Every entry is converted to its yearly equivalent automatically as you type.

Private by design

Your numbers stay in your browser. No account, no sign-up, no tracking of your budget.

Multiple currencies

Budget in multiple currencies and switch any time without losing your entries.

Ready to see your full-year budget?

Open the free Clear Budget calculator. Add your income, expenses and savings in whatever frequency they arrive, and see your annual, daily, weekly and monthly totals instantly — privately, in your own browser.

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By Tanguy Lepage, founder of Clear Budget. Last reviewed October 2026. Clear Budget calculates and describes; it does not provide financial advice.