Timesheet template

Free Excel, PDF, Word - Weekly, Bi-Weekly & Monthly Templates

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

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What is a timesheet?

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

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 method to store and track how much time each employee spends working. If you don’t use a timesheet app or payroll software that tracks employee time, a timesheet will be very useful for you. It is often easier for a small business with few employees to use a template.

How to use the timesheet template?

These timesheets are almost ready to be used, a small 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.

Free timesheet templates

Do you want to record the hours worked by your employees, then you should check our free timesheet templates. They will be helpful in tracking time within your company. These professionally designed templates are accessible as Doc, Spreadsheet, and PDF 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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There are 3 types of timesheets templates that we made available:Weekly timesheet, Bi-weekly timesheet and Monthly timesheet.

Weekly timesheet

The Weekly timesheets templates help you to calculate work hours and pay periods for your employees on a weekly basis. Download them for free and modify accordingly.


Microsoft Word Timesheet Template

Start using this simple Word template for within your company. Just fill the dates worked, working hours and calculate the total worked hours.


Excel Timesheet Template

This timesheet template is compatible with all recent versions of Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice. Once you download the template, just double-click to open it and then customize it according to your needs.


Google Sheets Timesheet Template

This timesheet template is made for Google Spreadsheets, which is a free Excel alternative. Just make a copy of it in your Google Drive, and share it with your team for adding the hours worked.


PDF Timesheet Template

This PDF timesheet template works perfectly if in your company you used printed timesheets and employees fill the work hours by hand.

A basic Weekly Timesheet Template with overtime and regular hours for each employee.


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Weekly Templates in Excel

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You have asked, we have listened. Because there is a big demand for Weekly Templates in Excel, we have decided to update our templates, and add some additional templates that fit various employee needs: simple ones, with lunch breaks, with break deduction, with overtime or with the payment that is ready for payroll.

All these templates are free to use, they are print-friendly and have formulas already setup to make all the calculations.

Simple weekly timesheet template

A basic Weekly Timesheet Template with arrival and departure time and formulas to calculate the working time.


Simple weekly timesheet template with break deduction

A stylish Weekly Timesheet Template that includes break deductions and computes working time for each employee from each department.


Weekly timesheet template with lunch breaks

This basic Weekly Timesheet Template allows to provide informations regarding arrival and departure time of the employee plus details regarding the lunch break in-out and formulas to calculate the working hours.


Weekly timesheet template with lunch overtime and pay

A Weekly Timesheet Template that includes lunch break deductions and computes the weekly pay based on the regular and overtime hours for each employee from each department.


Weekly timesheet template with tasks

A simple Weekly Timesheet Template to keep track of working hours per task for each employee.


Weekly timesheet template with projects

Discover an easy-to-use Weekly Timesheet Template based on projects that computes overtime and regular hours for each employee.


Weekly timesheet template with projects

Discover an easy-to-use Weekly Timesheet Template based on projects that computes overtime and regular hours for each employee.

Weekly timesheet template with multiple employees

Find an easy-to-use Weekly Timesheet Template that computes working time for multiple employees.


Weekly timesheet template with multiple employees with tasks

Download a complete Weekly Timesheet Template that keeps track of working time for multiple projects and multiple employees.


Weekly timesheet template with multiple employees with tasks

Get a Weekly Timesheet Template that keeps track of working time, holidays, vacations, and sick leave for each employee.

Here is a tip: Are you looking to build your own Excel timesheet template with formulas? We have an in detail, step by step guide on calculating time, adding lunch breaks, subtracting time, calculating overtime and pay just for you. Discover the How to make a timesheet template? tutorial.

Bi-Weekly Timesheet Template

If your company is using a bi-weekly work and pay period. This bi-weekly timesheet template will be a better fit for your employees. Bi-weekly means twice per month or every two weeks.

A basic BI-Weekly Timesheet Template with overtime and regular hours for each employee.


Simple BiWeekly timesheet template with formulas

A stylish BI-Weekly Timesheet Template that includes break deductions and computes working time for each employee from each department.

Monthly Timesheet Template

To have an monthly overview of the regular and overtime hours worked on monthly basis, these excel, word, pdf and google template would be of great support.

A basic Monthly Timesheet Template with overtime and regular hours for each employee.


Simple Monthly timesheet template with break deduction calculations

A stylish Monthly Timesheet Template that includes break deductions and computes working time for each employee from each department.

Our timesheet templates are provided without charge and without warranty as to their fitness or usefulness for any particular task.

Use ARA to skip manual work

Getting your team to track time shouldn't be a hassle. ARA designed the timesheet app that makes time-tracking easy, automatic, and fun.

Highlight errors automatically

The timesheet app will highlight time card errors automatically, and point on how to fix them. Running payroll will be effective and you’ll stay compliant with local labour laws.

Save hours on manual data entry

ARA tracks time worked automatically, so you won't need to use energy and time entering clock in and clock out times in a spreadsheet.

All in one place

Use the app not only for time tracking, but add time off, notifications and all your labour data in one place.