The year goal and the daily norm

Where the year goal comes from, how today's norm is derived from it, and why it moves every day.

Goal till year end

The goal is the rate times billable hours: what a year of work brings at the plan you set. For everyone who has been here a while it counts the whole calendar year, January 1 to December 31 — as it always did.

For accounts created from September 11, 2026, the goal counts the remainder of the year: the annual sum is divided into days and multiplied by the days left from the day of the calculation to December 31. Joined in September — the goal covers four months, not twelve, and «behind plan» doesn't appear on day one because of months you weren't here for. The rate itself doesn't change: it comes from the monthly sum and hours, not from the length of the horizon.

The window opens back to the full year as soon as you enter what you've already earned this year on the Rate page: you supplied the missing half yourself, and it's fair to measure you from January. On January 1 it opens on its own.

The share is taken from the day of the calculation, not from today — otherwise the goal would melt away with every day lived.

The daily norm

The daily norm is the year's goal spread over the working days that are still left:

daily norm, hours = (year's goal − already earned) ÷ your rate ÷ working days till December 31

Working days are weekdays: Saturday and Sunday don't count. Public holidays are not subtracted at all — we don't know your country, and guessing it from the interface language would mean taking Russian holidays off someone in Berlin. «Minus weekends» is a rule you can check against your own calendar; a wrong holiday calendar is worse than none.

Only paid hours count towards it: work on a free project doesn't move the goal. An hour with no project assigned doesn't move it either — and brings no money: until it's known whether the work is paid, promising money would be dishonest. Assign the project when you sort the day, and the hour becomes paid retroactively. That's why the day ring says «paid so much of the norm», not «so much in total».

There may be no norm at all, and then the «of how much» is left out: the year's goal is already met — there's nothing to divide; or there's no rate — hours can't be made out of money.

Under the ring is today's money: paid hours × the project rate. On a fixed-price project an hour is worth the same as in the year's progress: the fix ÷ invoiced hours, and until there are invoices, the project rate. Work done over the year never exceeds the fix: once the price is used up, today's hours add no money, and the ring shows nothing rather than «free».

Next: income and the rate you actually get, debt, advances and invoices, and all the calculation rules.