Free Excel Timesheet Templates

Download free-to-use timesheet templates for you and your employees. Use this timesheet template to keep track of the day and record the working hours of your workforce.

If you want to record the hours worked by your employees, you should check our free timesheet templates. They will help track time within your company. These professionally designed templates are accessible as Excel XLSX Spressheets for you to freely download, edit, print, and distribute to your team as you see fit.

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Weekly Timesheet Template

The Weekly Timesheet Template is helpful when you record your staff worked hours weekly. It includes not only worked hours but also overtime and several types of time off: sick, holiday, and vacation. You can choose the first day of the week and customize overtime options. The template also deals with payroll information.

Some functionalities that your employees will find helpful:

  • The template facilitates the total pay and includes two ways of calculating overtime: daily after 8h and weekly after 40h.
  • All the formulas are provided in the file.
  • The template helps generate the weekdays automatically to save precious time.
  • There is a lunch break column that automatically deduces the break time from worked hours.
  • This Excel weekly timesheet template can be printed or saved as PDF after providing all the relevant details.


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Monthly Timesheet Template

The Monthly Timesheet Template is helpful when you record your staff worked hours monthly. Like the previous template, it includes not only worked hours but also overtime and several types of time off: sick, holiday, and vacation. You can choose the first day of the month and customize overtime options. The template deals with payroll information too.

Some functionalities that your employees will find helpful:

  • The template facilitates the total pay and calculates overtime daily after 8h.
  • The template helps generate the weekdays automatically to save precious time.
  • There is a column for the lunch break that automatically deduces the break time from worked hours.
  • This Excel monthly timesheet template can be printed or saved as PDF after providing all the relevant details.


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Employee Timesheet Template

The Employee Timesheet Template is helpful when you need to record all your staff worked hours in each period. It includes worked hours, overtime, and several types of time off such as sick, holiday, vacation, etc. You can choose the start and end dates of the period. The template deals with payroll information too.

Some functionalities that your employees will find useful:

  • The template facilitates the total pay for all your staff in each period.
  • The template includes several types of time off alongside regular hours and overtime.
  • The data can easily be transferred into a payroll report or annual statistic.
  • This Excel employee timesheet template can be printed or saved as PDF after providing all the relevant details.


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Project-Based Timesheet Template

The Project-Based Timesheet Template is helpful when you need to record how much time an employee spends working on a project. It includes worked hours and overtime and helps you keep track of time and money for each project. You can choose the starting day and customize the template for weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly needs.

Some functionalities that your employees will find useful:

  • The template facilitates the total pay and calculates overtime daily after 8h.
  • The template helps generate the weekdays automatically to save precious time.
  • Each project may have a different rate per hour.
  • This Excel project-based timesheet template can be printed or saved as PDF after providing all the relevant details.
Note: Employees can work on multiple projects on the same day, this is why you see the 6 Feb row twice.


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Daily timesheet template

Daily timesheets show all of each employee's work hours in a single spreadsheet for a single workday.

With this template, you can create a report displaying all employees' daily work hours, start and end times, and hourly pay, including overtime.

To start:

  • Enter your start and finish times and regular and overtime hours will be computed automatically.
  • When you enter hourly rates, the total payroll will be calculated automatically.


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Tip: See also our Timesheet templates in Google Sheets.


What is a timesheet?

A timesheet is a simple table used by small and medium businesses to help staff keep track of employees' hours worked. Timesheet tables can be useful for payroll and overtime tracking.

On this page, you'll find several free timesheet templates for weekly, biweekly, and monthly pay periods. You can use these in Excel, Google Sheets by customizing them according to your needs. These templates are designed by professionals and ready to be used within your business.

We are sure you will enjoy these templates, however, if you would like to automate time tracking, reduce the number of manual processes, test the online timesheet solution by ARA. Your time card will have an automatic approval process, simple approval flows and errors highlighted.


What are the benefits of using the timesheet template?

The benefits of using a timesheet are multiple. Here are just 3 of them:

  • Tracking employee work hours
  • Simplify payroll and stay organized
  • Provide proof for a wage and hour audit or lawsuit.

When should you use a timesheet template?

The timesheet is a generally agreed-upon method for storing and tracking each employee's working time. A timesheet will be very useful if you don't use a time tracking app or payroll software that tracks employee time. Using a template is often easier for a small business with few employees.

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How to use the timesheet template?

These timesheets are almost ready to be used; a minor edit needs to be done, and you will be able to track time like a professional. More specifically, start using the timesheet by:

  1. Customize the template document with your company, employee, and pay rate information
  2. Print, email or share the timesheet file with your employees
  3. Have the employees fill out the timesheet on a daily basis
  4. Develop a procedure for reporting and recording completed timesheets.