Jobs per day is the average number of jobs a technician completes per working day. It is calculated as completed jobs divided by technician working days in the same period.
How to calculate jobs per day
Jobs per day = Completed jobs ÷ Technician working days
Say eight technicians each worked 21 days last month, and the team completed 840 jobs. That is 840 ÷ 168, or 5.0 jobs per technician per day.
The ceiling on the number is set by three inputs:
Maximum jobs per day ≈ Available hours ÷ (Average job duration + Average drive between jobs)
With 8 available hours, 60-minute jobs and 30-minute drives, the ceiling is about 5.3. Cut the average drive to 20 minutes and it rises to 6.0. That is the arithmetic behind most of what moves this metric, and the jobs per day calculator lets you run it on your own numbers.
Why it matters for scheduling
Jobs per day is where drive time shows up as lost revenue. Job duration is largely fixed by the work. Drive time between jobs is largely set by how jobs were booked. So when two teams with the same job mix differ on jobs per day, the difference is usually geography and booking order, not effort.
That makes it a scheduling metric as much as a labor metric. Booking each job next to the work already on a truck, with drive time checked at the moment the slot is offered, raises the ceiling. The full breakdown, including how job mix distorts comparisons, is in Jobs per day per technician.
A common mistake
Comparing jobs per day across different work. A maintenance-heavy team and an install-heavy team will never match, and a technician doing three diagnostic calls is not less productive than one doing seven filter changes. Compare within one job type, or weight jobs by expected duration.
The other mistake is pushing the number up by shortening jobs on the board. If job duration estimates are cut below reality, jobs per day rises on paper and callbacks rise in the field.
Related terms
- Schedule density measures how tightly jobs are packed, which drives the ceiling.
- Drive time is the variable most under scheduling's control.
- Technician productivity uses jobs per day as one of its inputs.
Common questions
How many jobs per day should a technician do?
It depends on job type, duration and territory size. Calculate your own ceiling with the formula above, then compare your actual number to it. The gap is the opportunity.
Should cancelled jobs count?
No. Count completed jobs only. Track cancellations separately, since they create a gap in the day that drives idle time.
Does adding technicians raise jobs per day?
Not per technician. More trucks spread over the same territory can raise total jobs, but per-truck density often falls unless booking keeps each truck's work close together.