Years of Service Calculator
Work out tenure in years, months and days, with breaks in service and the next anniversary, for one employee or the whole team. Free, no sign-up.
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Position, department, type, manager and status for each person. People who have left move to a separate list.
Frequently asked questions
Count whole years from the hire date, then whole months, then the days left. From March 15, 2019 to November 9, 2026 is 7 years, 7 months and 25 days. The tenure calculator above does it for any two dates, breaks in service included.
=DATEDIF(A2,TODAY(),"y") for whole years; add "ym" for the months and "md" for the days. =YEARFRAC(A2,TODAY(),1) gives decimal years. The calculator shows the formula for your dates.
That depends on your policy or plan. The calculator lets you mark each break as counted or not; a break that does not count moves the start date forward by its length.
No. For retirement plan eligibility, a year of service is a 12-month period with at least 1,000 hours (ERISA). A part-time employee can have years of tenure and fewer plan years.
Cash and gift cards are. A length-of-service award can be tax-free when it is tangible personal property, within $1,600 a year under a written plan ($400 otherwise), and not given in the first 5 years of employment or within 4 years of the last one (IRS Publication 15-B; 26 U.S.C. 274(j)).
The median tenure with a current employer in the US was 4.1 years in January 2026, and 3.0 years for workers aged 25 to 34 (BLS).
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