How should bi-weekly wages be converted to annual income?

To determine how to convert bi-weekly wages to annual income, one must consider the frequency of pay periods and the total number of pay periods in a year. Bi-weekly wages mean that an employee is paid every two weeks. Since there are 52 weeks in a year, dividing that by 2 indicates that there are 26 bi-weekly pay periods in a year.

Therefore, to convert bi-weekly wages to annual income, you take the bi-weekly wage and multiply it by 26. This calculation accounts for all the pay periods throughout the year.

Other choices present incorrect multipliers for calculating annual income based on bi-weekly earnings. For instance, multiplying by 24 would roughly correspond to semi-monthly wages, where employees are paid twice a month, resulting in 24 pay periods. Similarly, multiplying by 52 would indicate weekly wages rather than bi-weekly, and multiplying by 36 does not relate to any standard payroll period and is not a valid conversion for annual income.