Weekly hours total

Adding seven numbers is not the hard part. Reading them is. Two 40-hour weeks can look identical in a total and nothing alike in practice. One is five even days. The other is a fourteen-hour day propping up four short ones.

Fill in every field to see the result.

How to use it

  1. Step 1

    Enter the hours for each day you worked. Skip the days you did not.

  2. Step 2

    Use decimals rather than minutes: seven and a half hours is 7.5.

  3. Step 3

    Compare the average against the longest day. A gap between them is the week's real shape.

  4. Step 4

    Nothing above 24 in a single day is accepted, because that entry is a typo rather than a long shift.

Questions people ask

Should I count a day with no hours as zero?

Leave it out. A logged zero drags the daily average down and makes a four-day week look like a slow five-day one.

Does the total include overtime?

The total is every hour you entered. Splitting it needs an overtime threshold, which is a policy number, so that calculation lives in the overtime tool.

Why is the longest day shown separately?

Because averages hide spikes. A fourteen-hour Tuesday inside an ordinary-looking week is the thing worth seeing.