How to Calculate Average Tenure of Employees in Excel

When you are calculating tenure or average tenure, Excel can be a handy tool for you. Today I am going to show you two easy and suitable methods to calculate average tenure of employees in Excel effectively with appropriate illustrations. For preparing examples and workbooks I’m using Excel 2019. You can choose your version.

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Introduction to DAY and TODAY Functions

There are several functions in Excel. Gradually, you will get to know them. Today I am going to be talking to you about two basic date-time functions.

DAY() function, This function will return the value of days in a date. Let you have a date of 25 February 2021. Write the date within the DAY() function.

I wrote the date in the form of DD-MM-YY. Then apply the DAY() function to it.

It gave the day number of that date.

Let’s look at another function, called DAYS().

Using the DAYS() function, you can get the day difference between two dates.

For this example, I wanted to know the day difference between 25 February 2021 and the current day. So I used another function, TODAY(). I hope you remember, the TODAY() function returns the current date.

It provided the day difference. By the time I’m preparing this article, it’s 12 October 2022.

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Tenure Basics

You will hear the term “tenure” more often when referring to the employment of any employee. Tenure means the service period of an employee for any particular employer.

In simple language, you can compare this to the service period of an employee.

Look at the below screenshot to easily understand the tenure of an employee.

2 Suitable Ways to Calculate Average Tenure of Employees in Excel

Let’s introduce our dataset. Our dataset contains several employee tenures of XYZ group. To calculate the average tenure, we will apply the DATEDIF, TODAY, DAY, DAYS, NOW, and AVERAGE functions. Here’s an overview of the dataset for today’s task.

1. Combine DATEDIF, TODAY, and AVERAGE Functions to Calculate Average Tenure of Employees

In this method, we will learn how to calculate the average tenure of employees in Excel with dynamic and specific dates. Let’s follow the instructions below to learn!

1.1 Dynamic Date

In this sub-method, you may need to see the tenure(service period) of your currently working employees. You will find the result by calculating the difference between their joining date and the present day. For calculating the difference, we can use the DAYS() function, which we discussed before starting the calculation.

But let’s know about another function. It’s DATEDIF().

DATEDIF() function takes three parameters, start_date, end_date, and format.

Let’s follow the instructions below to learn!

Steps:

• First of all, select cell D5, and write down the below functions.

• Hence, simply press Enter on your keyboard. As a result, you will get the tenure which is the return of the DATEDIF function. The return is 21.

• Hence, AutoFill the functions to the rest of the cells in column D.

• Further, calculate the average tenure now. To calculate the average tenure, write down the AVERAGE() function in cell E5.

• Hence, simply press Enter on your keyboard. As a result, you will get the tenure which is the return of the AVERAGE function. The return is 2.
• Within the AVERAGE() function insert the range of your calculated tenure for each employee, it will give you average tenure.
• Here I have shown the difference in months. You can get the output in years as well. Just use Y instead of M.

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1.2 Specific Date

Previously, we have seen how to calculate with dynamic dates. Now let’s see how you can calculate for any specific date, set manually.

It’s pretty similar to the earlier method, just in place of the TODAY() function, using the specific date.

Let, you are calculating tenure for your ex-employees, so every employee has a joining date, and leaving date. So, to calculate tenure your formula will be like

Let’s follow the instructions below to learn!

Steps:

• First of all, select cell E5, and write down the below DATEDIF

• Hence, simply press Enter on your keyboard. As a result, you will get the tenure which is the return of the DATEDIF function. The return is 24.

• Further, AutoFill the functions to the rest of the cells in column E.

• After that, calculate the average tenure now. To calculate the average tenure, write down the AVERAGE() function in cell E5.

• Hence, simply press Enter on your keyboard. As a result, you will get the tenure which is the return of the AVERAGE function. The return is 2.
• Here we got the result in months format.

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2. Applying DATEDIF Function to Calculate Tenure in Year-Months Format

We calculated the tenure in months. For different occasions, situations may arise where displaying just months or years may not be ideal.

We can make a combination of year and month format. To create that first, we need to calculate the difference in years and then count the months difference. To make a combination of the year and month format of the tenure using the DATEDIF function, simply repeat the sub-method 1.2. Hence, apply the DATEDIF function to get the tenure in year and month format. Let’s follow the instructions below to learn!

Steps:

• Now, write down the DATEDIF function in cell G5.

• Hence, simply press Enter on your keyboard. As a result, you will get the tenure in year and month format which is the return of the DATEDIF function. The return is 2Y 0M.

• Hence, AutoFill the functions to the rest of the cells in column D.
• Here I’ve inserted Joining Date and Leaving Date in the placeholders for start_date and end_date and concatenated Y and M to the outside of both the DATEDIF() function so that the result would be presented with a unit.

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Employees Tenure Calculator

You can use today’s workbook as a calculator to count average employees’ tenure. There is a sheet named Calculator.

Explore that sheet. You will find fields for the Joining date, Leaving date. Insert your values. It will calculate Tenure and the Average Tenure which has been given in the below screenshot.

For your understanding purpose, I’ve given an example with the values of three employees. You can insert as many employees as you want.

Conclusion

That’s all for the session. I have tried showing you how to calculate the average tenure of employees in Excel. Hope you will find that helpful. Feel free to comment if anything seems hard to understand. You can also write your way of doing the task.

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