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How to use

NETWORKDAYS formula
to calculate salary of
employees in MS Excel

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What is
NETWORKDAYS?

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Returns the number of whole


working days between start date
and end date.

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Working days exclude weekends


and any dates identified in
holidays.

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Use NETWORKDAYS to
calculate employee benefits that
accrue

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based on the number of days


worked during a specific term.

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Syntax:
NETWORKDAYS(start_date,
end_date, [holidays])

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The NETWORKDAYS function


syntax has the following
arguments:

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Start date: Required. A date that


represents the start date.

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End date: Required. A date


that represents the end date.

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Holidays: Optional. An optional


range of one or more dates

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to exclude from the working


calendar, such as state and federal
holidays and floating holidays.

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The list can be either a range of


cells that contains the dates

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or an array constant of the


serial numbers that represent
the dates.

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If any argument is not a valid


date, NETWORKDAYS returns
the #VALUE! error value.

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Lets begin!

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Open your MS Excel

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Click on it

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This is MS Excel

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I will now input my


employees data

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Type the classification


here of First name

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And put the First names


of your employees

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nd
2

Label the
row as
Last name

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Place the last names of


your employees

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Label the 3rd row as


Start date

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Place the start dates of


your employees

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Label the 4th row as


End date

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Place the End date of


2015

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Label the 5th row as


Salary

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Place the Salaries of


your employees

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Make room on the side


for Salary 2015

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Put 2015 days

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Put 2015 costs

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You have now arranged


your database properly

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We will now compute


their salary for 2015

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Type on the side the


start day of 2015

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And the last day of 2015

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Click on this cell

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Type =

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Then click the first


salary

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And then type / (to


divide)

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Type Networkdays

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Type open parenthesis (

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Click the start date on


the right side

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Click Fn+f4 to lock the


cell down

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Type comma ,

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And click the end date


on the right

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Click Fn+f4 to lock the


cell down

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Type close parenthesis )

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And click enter

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This is his daily salary

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But as you can see his start


date is at 2016 and not 2015

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Thus he should not have


a salary at 2015

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So click this cell again

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Type IF right after the


eguals sign =

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Then type open


parenthesis (

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Type AND

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Type open parenthesis


again (

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Click C2 which is the


employees start date

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Type the greater than


sign >

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Type equals sign =

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Click on the start date


again on the right

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Type comma ,

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Click the employee start


date again on the left

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Type less than sign <

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Type equals sign =

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And then click the end date


of 2015 on the right side

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Put a close parenthesis )

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Type comma ,

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Click on the K2

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And lock it down using


Fn+f4

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Click on the K3

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And lock it down using


Fn+f4

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Type comma at the end


of the formula ,

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Type Zero 0

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And end it with close


parenthesis )

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Click enter

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Highlight the cell

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Place your mouse at the


end of the highlighted cell

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Till your cursor turned


into a plus sign +

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Drag the plus sign + till


the last cell

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And you can see, the employees


who started working on 2016

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Now have Zero salary


for 2015

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Now lets find how many days did


each employee work on 2015

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Click on the cell

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Type equals sign =

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Type NETWORKDAYS

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Type open parenthesis (

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Click on the start date


of employee

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Type comma ,

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Click on end date of


2015 on the right side

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Lock the cell down by


clicking Fn+f4

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Type close parenthesis )

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Click enter

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Now you see how many days


the employee worked on 2015

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Since this employee


started working on 2016,

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the result is a negative


number

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Highlight the cell

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Place your mouse at the


end of the highlighted cell

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Till your cursor turned


into a plus sign +

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Drag the plus sign + till


the last cell

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Go back to the previous


cell

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Copy the IF statement


from its formula

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Click this cell

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And paste it in the


formula of this cell

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Type comma , at the


end of the formula

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Type zero 0

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Type close parenthesis )

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And click enter

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Now the result is zero

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Click on the cell

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Place your mouse at the


end of the highlighted cell

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Till your cursor turned


into a plus sign +

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And then double click

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Now you can see the total


working days of each employee
in 2015

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So finally for the last column


which is the total 2015 cost per
employee

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Click on the cell

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Type equals sign =

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Click on the 2015 salary


of the first employee

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Type asterisk * to
multiply

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Click on the 2015 days


of the first employee

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Click enter

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Click on the cell

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Place your mouse at the


end of the highlighted cell

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Till your cursor turned


into a plus sign +

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And then double click

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And now you have the total


2015 cost per employee

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Congratulations, youre
done!

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Credits to Microsoft Office and


Michael Herman of Youtube

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