Work experience calculator
Add each job you have held, one at a time and the running total appears below. Most experience calculators only handle a single period, which is no use to anyone who has changed employer. This one adds them up, counts overlapping roles only once and shows any gaps between them.
Uses a published standard formula, named below. Calculations run in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server. Not financial advice.
Add a period
Counts this period up to today automatically.
Total work experience
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Show the working
—How to use it
- Enter the start and end dates of your first job. The role name is optional but makes the downloaded file easier to read.
- Press Add. The period appears in the list with its own duration.
- Repeat for every job you have held. The total updates each time.
- For your current job, tick I still work here and leave the end date blank. It counts up to today.
How the total is counted
Each period counts both the first day and the last, because you worked on both. A job running from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2022 is three years exactly, not three years minus a day.
Whole months are counted first, then any leftover days. Where a start date does not exist in the end month, such as the 31st in February, the calculation clamps to the last day of that month rather than rolling forward.
Overlapping roles
If two periods overlap, because you held a second job or a contract alongside your main role, the overlapping time is counted once rather than twice. Employers almost always want elapsed experience rather than the sum of every contract.
When an overlap is found, the results show how many days were removed, so nothing happens silently. If you need the raw sum instead, the downloaded spreadsheet lists each period separately with its own duration.
Gaps between roles
Any time between one job ending and the next beginning is reported as a gap. This is worth knowing before an interview, because it is a question that comes up and because some visa and professional registration applications ask you to account for periods of more than a few months.
What the download contains
The CSV opens in Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice with a double click. It lists every period with its role, dates and duration broken into years, months and days, then the combined total on the last row. It pastes straight into a CV or an application form.
Not legal or employment advice. How experience is counted for a specific job application, visa category or professional registration is set by whoever is assessing it and their rules may differ from plain calendar arithmetic. Check the requirement before relying on a figure.
Frequently asked questions
How do I calculate total experience from several jobs?
Add each job as its own period with a start and end date. The calculator measures each one, adds them together and counts any overlapping time only once.
Does it count both the start and end date?
Yes. A period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2022 is exactly three years, because you worked on both the first day and the last.
What happens if two jobs overlap?
The overlapping days are counted once rather than twice, since employers want elapsed experience. The results show how many days were removed so the adjustment is visible.
How do I include my current job?
Tick the box marked “I still work here” and leave the end date blank. That period counts up to today and updates whenever you reopen the page.
Are gaps between jobs included in the total?
No. Gaps are excluded from the experience total but reported separately, because interviewers and some visa applications ask about them.
Can I export the result?
Yes. The download button produces a CSV listing every period with its dates and duration, plus the combined total, ready to paste into a CV or application form.