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How to calculate the employee tenure in months or years in Excel?

Author: Sun Last Modified: 2024-08-28

As a human resource specialist, you may need to calculate every employee’s tenure in month or years for different salaries or treatments. Here I introduce some tricks on calculating the tenure in months or years in Excel.

Calculate the tenure in month or years with formulas

Calculate the tenure in month or years with formulas

To calculate the tenure of a staff from entry date until now, you can apply below formulas.

Select a blank cell next to the entry date, for instance, C2, and enter this formula =DATEDIF(B2,NOW(),"M"), B2 is the entry date of the employee, and drag auto fill handle down to the cells you want to apply this formula. See screenshot:
a screenshot of using formula to calculate the tenure in month

If you want to calculate the tenure in years, you can apply this formula =DATEDIF(B2,NOW(),"Y"), see screenshot:
a screenshot of using formula to calculate the tenure in years

If you want to calculate the specific years and months of tenure, apply this formula =DATEDIF(B2,C2,"y") & " years, " & DATEDIF(B2,C2,"ym") & " months ", B2 is the entry date, and C2 is the leave date. See screenshot:
a screenshot of using formula to calculate the tenure in years and months

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