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Working days calculator

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0 holidays deducted · 7.5 h days
The breakdown
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≈260 weekdays a year before holidays
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A year holds 260, 261 or 262 weekdays depending on which day it starts and whether it is a leap year — 261 in roughly two years out of three. Deduct eight or so public holidays and about 253 are left, which is close to 1,900 hours at 7.5 hours a day. A month averages 21.7 working days, and that is the figure most capacity planning runs on.

How to count working days

1 Enter the period. Both end dates are counted, so Monday to Friday is five days rather than four.
2 Enter how many public holidays fall inside it — the tool cannot know which are yours.
3 Set the working day length. Seven and a half and eight hours are both common, and the gap between them over a year is about 125 hours.
4 Read days and hours together: the day count is what a plan needs and the hour count is what a rate card needs.

Available capacity is always well below the raw working-day count. Subtract annual leave, public holidays, sickness and training and a nominal 261-day year becomes nearer 200 days of actual availability per person. Planning against the calendar figure rather than the available figure is the most common reason project estimates slip without anyone doing anything wrong. The familiar 2,080-hour year in salary and contractor arithmetic is a related simplification: it is 52 weeks times 40 hours, which quietly assumes exactly 260 weekdays and no holidays whatsoever. Most years have 261 and some have 262, so an hourly rate reached by dividing a salary by 2,080 is a convention rather than a measurement — perfectly serviceable, as long as nobody mistakes it for the number of days anyone will actually work.

Questions

260, 261 or 262 weekdays before holidays, and 261 in most years. Deducting eight to ten public holidays leaves roughly 251 to 253.

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