What does 1900 billable hours come out to in terms of hours worked per week.

8 Comments

1. AnonymousJanuary 3,2025 at 1:44PM UTC

   Divide by 40

2. Peace OutJanuary 3,2025 at 1:47PM UTC

   About 36.5 - 1900 divided by 52. A 40 hour workweek is 2080.

3. AnonymousJanuary 3,2025 at 2:14PM UTC

   Basically full time, dedicated for a year.

   We assume 2080 hrs for a year but also readjust and recalculate to assume a person might take all their leave and sick time.

   I’ve had jobs where I’ve needed to work 44 hrs billable (maybe 50-55 hrs total) to meet billable target if I wanted to use 2 weeks PTO.

4. AnonymousJanuary 3,2025 at 3:34PM UTC

   Hm..I have not had a job where I track billable hours but I think 1900 billable might mean more than a 40 hour week as you are not productive in a billable sense every min you are on the clock. If you think 2080 hours (if you worked 40 hours a week * 52 weeks per year), and then you subtract PTO, co paid Holidays, break time to get coffee, go to the restroom, etc., training and development time, management meetings (1:1's, team meetings) and so on. When I calculate the number of FTE I need to work volumes, I typically estimate that people work production about 1600 hours out of 2080 when I am determining our capacity needs. This number could vary based on how many holidays your company offers, how many vacation days, if you estimate some sick time, etc. but you should take the 2080 and subtract out the annual benefits like this to see what the ending number is and how that compares to 1900. I work for a large company and we do have good PTO and Holiday benefits that definitely take the number down. I see many people are using 2 weeks vacation - we range closer to 4 weeks as a company (depends on Years of Service).

5. AnonymousJanuary 3,2025 at 2:31PM UTC

   1900 annual billable hours ÷ 52 weeks per year (assuming no pto etc) is about 36.5 hours billed per week.

6. Luna AlveyJanuary 3,2025 at 3:40PM UTC

   Attorney billable hours are not like regular hours. Not everything is billable and you’ll probably have to work over and above that amount because of cutbacks depending on the client. A billable hour attorney works, at a minimum of 55- 60 hrs per week. I’ve been an attorney for 20 yrs and am allergic to billable hours.

7. Jill Decker, RNJanuary 3,2025 at 4:05PM UTC

   47.5 weeks

8. Elizabyth HarringtonJanuary 4,2025 at 9:01PM UTC

   I’m not sure the context for your question, but as a PM I estimate an expected year of billable hours to be 40 hours per week x 48 weeks (52 weeks minus 10 days for US holidays and 10 days PTO). That brings me to 1920 hours. Your company’s holiday schedule may vary, but 1900 hours sounds like a reasonable amount of expected hours for a year long project.