Annual Work Budget Planner

How many days can you still work this year?

This free planning calendar combines two numbers that should never be confused: your annual billable-day budget and the number of weekdays actually left available to work. A contractor may have an annual cap of 180, 195 or 220 days. Whether the calendar allows those days depends on public holidays, weekends, organisation closures, vacation, and any recurring weekdays off. The planner keeps those two constraints separate instead of assuming a free weekday can always be invoiced.

Enter one total or expand monthly detail

Start with your calendar year, annual day budget and the single total of billable days completed this year. Monthly figures are optional, hidden by default and never added again on top of your annual total. Set the planning-from date to the first day not yet included in your billed total. Your future calendar covers what remains. Set the planning-from date to avoid treating past weekdays as future opportunities. Every summary recalculates immediately as you change an input, and the tool displays your remaining budget even when it has become negative.

Try different days off without rewriting your timesheet

Select any recurring weekdays you do not intend to work, such as all Tuesdays or every Wednesday from the planning date onwards. The work capacity number updates directly. Add one-day leave or an entire holiday week as a dated range; there is a shortcut to add a seven-day range. Tap any future available workday once to take it off and tap again to restore it. You can also select a whole Monday-to-Friday week. A prominent result below the calendar always shows your projected year-end total (already billed plus all remaining available workdays) and whether it is above or below budget. The optional monthly breakdown never overrides your annual total without an explicit action.

Company closures and Belgian public holidays

Belgian national holidays are a starting point, not a full company-specific work schedule. If your employer or customer is closed on bridge days, replacement holidays or during the final working week of December, enter those dates in the additional closure box. You can enable the Christmas-to-New-Year closure rule in one click. Statutory replacement days can differ between organisations and sectors; verify them with the responsible organisation and enter them separately. The calculator does not decide which days you are entitled or authorised to bill.

See clearly whether your working-year plan is over or under budget

At the bottom of the interactive calendar, a large result states exactly how many working days your current scenario finishes over or under the annual budget. There is no adjustable allowance or overrun slider: the comparison always uses the annual target you entered. The calculation adds the days already billed to every future blue workday still available after your selections. Tap a blue date to make it a day off; tap a yellow date you selected to restore it. The W button beside a calendar row toggles its entire Monday-to-Friday workweek, even when dates cross into another month. The year-end forecast responds immediately after every change.

If your budget is 195 days, 169 are already billed and 33 future workdays remain, you would finish at 202 days, or 7 over budget. Taking seven additional eligible days off brings the projection to 195. If the available calendar instead ends below 195, the result plainly says how far under budget you would be. The forecast does not guarantee an employer or customer will approve any particular number of billable days, and statutory substitute holidays still depend on your organisation.

Privacy, local storage and export

There is no account requirement and no connection to your timesheet, payroll or customer system. Your figures are calculated entirely in your browser and retained only in that browser's local storage so you can return to the same plan later. Someone using the same device and browser profile may be able to see the saved plan. Use Reset to clear it. Export a simple dated CSV for your own spreadsheet or calendar analysis. No client name, organisation, day rate or personal contract information is prefilled, and no specific customer schedule is baked into the public page.

Also see the Belgian workday counter and the Belgian school holiday calendar.