(Math.round(num * 100) / 100).toFixed(2);

Live Demo

var num1 = "1";
document.getElementById('num1').innerHTML = (Math.round(num1 * 100) / 100).toFixed(2);

var num2 = "1.341";
document.getElementById('num2').innerHTML = (Math.round(num2 * 100) / 100).toFixed(2);

var num3 = "1.345";
document.getElementById('num3').innerHTML = (Math.round(num3 * 100) / 100).toFixed(2);

span {
    border: 1px solid #000;
    margin: 5px;
    padding: 5px;
}

<span id="num1"></span>
<span id="num2"></span>
<span id="num3"></span>

Note that it will round to 2 decimal places, so the input 1.346 will return 1.35.

This should do the job:

var formattedNumber = (x * 1.5).toFixed(2).replace(/[.,]00$/, "");

As a float 8.50 an 8.5 are identical. However when you convert your number to a string you can specify the number of decimal places you would like to use with the function toFixed() e.g.

var a = parseFloat($("#salaryFrom").val());
var b = a.toFixed(2);

The function toFixed() takes the number of decimal places you would like to format your number to, in this case 2.