FTE Calculator

Understand your workforce in full-time equivalents

Full-time equivalent, or FTE, is a simple way to understand how many hours your workforce is actually working, expressed as full-time roles rather than just headcount.

It’s especially useful when your team includes a mix of full-time and part-time employees and you want a clearer view of labour capacity, staffing levels, or costs.

This calculator helps you turn individual hours into a single, standardised FTE figure, based on your organisation’s full-time workweek.

What this calculator helps you see

FTE gives you a clearer picture of your workforce by helping you:

• Look beyond headcount and understand actual hours worked

• Compare labour across teams or time periods

• Understand the balance between full-time and part-time work

• Support workforce planning and budgeting

It’s not about compliance on its own. It’s about clarity.

A quick note on FTE

FTE is based on scheduled hours, not overtime or one-off additional work. It’s designed to give you a consistent baseline for understanding workforce capacity.

On its own, FTE doesn’t calculate pay or apply award rules. It’s one input that helps you understand how your workforce is structured.