⏳ Experience Calculator
Add your jobs with their dates and instantly get your total work experience in years and months — perfect for resumes and forms.
Work experience calculator
Add each job with its dates to get your total experience.
Total experience
About the Experience Calculator
Job applications, resumes and background forms constantly ask for your total years of experience, but adding up multiple roles by hand — especially with gaps or overlapping positions — is fiddly and easy to get wrong. This free experience calculator does it precisely: add each job with its start and end date, and it computes your total experience in years and months.
You can add as many roles as you like, mark your current job as ongoing, and the tool sums the durations for you. It shows each role’s individual length as well as your combined total, so you can quickly quote an accurate figure on any application or verify what an employer expects.
The calculation runs instantly in your browser with nothing stored. Whether you are updating your resume, filling a job portal profile, or checking eligibility for a role that requires a minimum number of years, this tool gives you a reliable, professional answer in seconds.
Why use this tool
How to use it
Add a job
Enter the start date and end date for each role.
Mark current roles
Tick “current” for a job you are still in.
Add more roles
Include every position across your career.
Get your total
See your combined experience and copy it.
Tips to get the most out of it
- Use the same dates that appear on your resume for consistency.
- For overlapping roles, decide whether to count calendar time once or sum both, depending on the form.
- Round to the nearest month when quoting experience on applications.
- Keep a note of exact dates — employers often verify them.
Frequently Asked Questions
The tool measures the duration of each job from its start date to its end date (or today, if ongoing), then adds these durations together and expresses the total in years and months.
Mark a role as current and the calculator uses today’s date as the end date, so your ongoing experience is always up to date.
Yes. Gaps between jobs are simply not counted, so your total reflects only the time you were actually employed in the roles you enter.
The tool sums each role’s duration. If two roles overlapped and a form wants unique calendar time, adjust accordingly — but most applications accept the summed total.
No. Everything is calculated locally in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
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