Work Experience Calculator

Written byOleh Soloninupdated 5 October 2026

Employment periods

One period per line, the two dates joined by a hyphen. Both dates count towards the length of service.

Result

Full years12
Months8
Days0
Total days4,623
Periods counted3
Lines not recognised0
Against the 15-year minimum2 years 4 months short of the fifteen years required

Paste the periods, get the total

Add up separate employment periods and get the total in years, months and days. Both end dates count, the way personnel records treat them.

Adding service periods by hand goes wrong for a boring reason: months have different lengths and the gaps between jobs are easy to miscount. Enter each period on its own line and the total comes back in the format personnel departments use.

One rule catches almost everyone out — the last day of a job counts as worked. A period running from 1 February to 28 February is 28 days, not 27, and simple date subtraction quietly loses that day.

How to use

Enter the periods of employment one per line as «date — date», copying the start and end of each record.
Order does not matter and overlaps are fine — the calculator merges them and counts each day once.
Read the total in years, months and days, the total number of days, and how many lines could not be parsed.

How the periods are counted

Every period counts both of its end dates: 1 to 10 February is ten days, not nine. That is how a Russian HR department counts it, and it is exactly where a spreadsheet subtraction of two dates gives a different answer.

The total is not days divided by 365. It is built in calendar order — whole years first, then months, then the remaining days — so the three periods in the example come to exactly 12 years and 8 months, even though they add up to 4,623 days.

Where length of service turns into money

Insurance service length sets the percentage of sick pay, and the thresholds are steps rather than a slope: under five years pays 60 percent of average earnings, five to eight pays 80, and eight or more pays 100. A single missing month at a boundary costs 20 percentage points of average earnings: a quarter of the benefit below the 80 percent step, a fifth below the 100 percent one.

The state pension needs both a minimum service length and a minimum number of pension points; the calculator shows how many years are still missing. In Russia, service with one employer does not by itself set the notice period or the size of severance pay: those follow from the ground for dismissal (Articles 80, 178 and 180 of the Labour Code), the category of employee and the contract.

Average daily earnings of 2,506.85 ₽, from two years of income of 850,000 and 980,000 ₽. Worked out with the sick leave calculator.
Insurance service	Sick pay rate	Benefit for 10 days at 2,506.85 ₽ a day
Under 5 years	60%	15,041 ₽
5 to 8 years	80%	20,055 ₽
8 years or more	100%	25,069 ₽

What this calculator shows

Total service in years, months and days, with the raw day count beside it
How many lines were parsed and how many were skipped because of a typo
Whether the total already clears the fifteen-year minimum for a Russian state pension

What to keep in mind

Service is counted in calendar order, as Russian pension rules do: each period is split into whole years, months and days, then every 30 days become a month and every 12 months a year.
Overlapping periods are merged: with two jobs held at once each calendar day counts once, and the calculator shows how many days fell in the overlap.

FAQs

Does time at university count as service?

Not toward the insured service used for a Russian pension, since no contributions were paid. It counted under the pre-2002 rules, which now apply only to periods before that date.

What about parental leave?

Caring for each child up to eighteen months counts toward insured service; the current text of Federal Law No. 400-FZ no longer caps it at six years in total. Add such a stretch as its own line and it is treated like ordinary employment.

Why is the result one day longer than my own count?

You almost certainly subtracted one date from the other. From the 1st to the 10th is ten days, but subtraction gives nine. The final day is included here.

How much service does a pension need?

Fifteen years of insured service plus thirty pension points. The two are tracked separately, so it is possible to have the years but fall short on points if declared pay was low.

What happens when periods overlap?

They are merged, and a day inside two periods is counted once. Overlaps are normal where someone held two jobs at once, and they do not produce double service.

Why is 4,623 days 12 years and 8 months rather than 12 years and 7?

Because service is counted by the calendar, not by dividing days by 365. Months of unequal length are added in calendar order, and leftover days roll into a full month wherever they complete one.

Is this counting specific to Russia?

The counting of both end dates is arithmetic and travels anywhere, but the thresholds that make it matter — 60, 80 and 100 percent sick pay, the pension minimum — are Russian. Elsewhere the same total will map onto different entitlements.

Worked example

Three jobs in a row

Input: 2013-09-02 → 2017-05-31, 2017-06-19 → 2021-11-30, 2022-02-14 → 2026-07-31

Output: 12 years 8 months

Note: The 18-day gap between the first and second job and the two-and-a-half-month gap before the third are excluded, while every final working day is counted.

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