Thank you Lisa! This works great!
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Calculating Months of Tenure
If you are in charge of tracking employees in your department or company, you might want to know if you can use Excel to calculate the months of tenure for those employees, given the date at which the employee started. This can be done very easily.
For the sake of this example, let's assume that column C contains the starting date for a list of employees. You could use the following formula in column D to determine each employee's tenure:
=DATEDIF(C3,NOW(),"M")
The DATEDIF function calculates the difference between a starting date and an ending date. The "M" used in the formula indicates that you want the result in completed months.
To calculate the average tenure for your series of employees, simply include the following formula at the bottom of column C:
=AVERAGE(C3:C174)
Of course, you should replace the range in the function (C3:C174) with the actual range of employee tenures as determined by the DATEDIF formula.
ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (2595) applies to Microsoft Excel versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
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Comments for this tip:
Gary Lundblad 27 Aug 2012, 11:29
Lisa Johnson 24 Aug 2012, 10:32
Gary,
This should work
=DATEDIF(EOMONTH(C3,0),NOW(),"M"), provided C3 is where your original date is.
This should work
=DATEDIF(EOMONTH(C3,0),NOW(),"M"), provided C3 is where your original date is.
Gary Lundblad 18 Jul 2012, 10:10
What if you want to know the number of months from the end of the hire month? For example, the employee's hire date is Oct 21; I want to know the number of months from Oct 31.
Thank You!
Gary
Thank You!
Gary