Work Experience Calculator — Total Years from Your Jobs
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Add every job — get your true total experience in years and months, with gaps shown honestly.
How to use this tool
- For each job, pick the start date and the end date (leave end blank if it's your current job).
- Press + Add job for each position.
- Press Calculate experience — overlapping jobs are merged (no double counting), and honest gaps are excluded.
Example
Job 1: Jan 2020 – Mar 2022 (26 months). Job 2: May 2022 – today (52 months). Total = 6 years 6 months, with a 1-month gap shown between them — the number recruiters compute by hand, done honestly.
The formula
sum of merged, non-overlapping date spans → years + months (1 month = 30.44 days)
What the result means
Experience totals matter at application thresholds ('minimum 3 years') and salary bands. This calculator counts only actual working time: two overlapping freelance gigs don't double-count, and career gaps stay gaps — which is fine; a gap honestly shown beats a timeline that doesn't add up.
Frequently asked questions
Do overlapping jobs count twice?
No — overlapping periods are merged and counted once. That's how HR computes it too.
My job dates are month-only, no exact day. What do I pick?
Use the 1st of the month for both start and end — the standard convention when only months are known.
Do internships count?
Yes if they were real work — list them. Recruiters generally count internships toward experience, weighted by relevance.
Is my career history uploaded?
No — everything is computed in your browser.
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