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14 on 7 off shift calendar 2028
14 on 7 off is the 2 and 1 roster: two weeks on site, one week at home, repeat. It is the money roster in Australian mining and common on remote projects everywhere, because you spend two thirds of the year working. The cycle is 21 days of 12 hours shifts.
The grid below is the whole of 2028 for a crew starting January 1. Twenty one days divides evenly into three weeks, so the swings never move off their weekdays. Travel days are not shown; on most sites they eat into the week at home.
Suits people chasing money over time at home: two thirds of the year on site. It leaves the least recovery of the common fly-in fly-out rosters.
Quick facts
- Cycle length
- 21 days
- Shifts per cycle
- 14 on, 7 off
- Shift length
- 12 hours
- Hours a week
- 56.8 on average
- Crews for 24/7 cover
- 3
- Full weekends off in 2028
- 17
14 on 7 off (2 and 1), 2028
The grid shows a crew whose cycle starts January 1, 2028; other crews run the same rotation offset by a few days. The 21 day cycle divides evenly into weeks, so the rotation never drifts: whatever weekdays a crew works in January, it works in December. Crews on other phases can see very different weekends. To line the pattern up with your real start date, use the interactive shift pattern visualizer.
The 2028 numbers
Full weekends off
17
Jan 1 crew; all crews: 15.1 on average (0 to 18)
Night shifts
0
247 day shifts
Recovery days
0
no night shifts to sleep off
Longest stretch
14
consecutive shifts
How many hours is 14 on 7 off in 2028?
Worked in full, 14 on 7 off in 2028 comes to 247 shifts of 12 hours: 2,964 hours, an average of 56.8 hours a week across the whole year. These figures assume every scheduled shift is worked: no overtime, no swaps, no sick days, no leave.
Put 14 on 7 off 2028 in your calendar
One file, every shift of the year, ready for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook. Shifts import with a default time of 7am to 7pm. Edit the times after import if your site runs different hours.
That file is the textbook rotation. Your real roster has swaps, overtime and cover shifts that no pattern predicts, so photograph it with Lumical and every shift lands in Apple Calendar. We make Lumical, so read this with that in mind.
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A perfect rotation fits in a calendar file. A real roster does not.
Swaps, overtime, and holiday cover break the pattern. Reading a real roster is what the Lumical app does: photograph it and every shift lands in your calendar, overnights included. We make it, so weigh the recommendation accordingly.
Common questions
What is a 2 and 1 roster?
Two weeks on, one week off. Written in days it is 14 on 7 off, and the cycle is 21 days long. It pays more than an 8 and 6 or a 14 and 14 because you are on site for more of the year, which is also why people burn out on it.
How many days do you work on 14 on 7 off in 2028?
247 shifts, 2,964 hours, an average of 56.8 hours a week. That is roughly two thirds of the calendar year on site before travel days are counted.
How many weekends off does 14 on 7 off give in 2028?
17 here, 0 to 18 across crews. One week off in three means at most one weekend in three, and because 21 days is exactly three weeks the answer is the same every cycle instead of moving through the year.
How does 14 on 7 off compare with 8 on 6 off?
More money, less recovery. 8 and 6 puts you at home 43 percent of the year in short bursts; 2 and 1 puts you there 33 percent in longer ones. Australian FIFO surveys keep picking 8 and 6 for life at home and 2 and 1 for earnings.
How many days will you work on 14 on 7 off in 2028?
247 shifts, which comes to 2,964 hours at 12 hours each. That leaves 119 days off. The count moves by a shift or two depending on where your crew sits in the cycle on January 1.
How many crews does 14 on 7 off need to cover 24 hours a day?
3. The cycle runs 21 days with 14 of them worked, so keeping one position filled every day takes 1.5 crews, and a 12 hours shift needs 2 positions to fill the day.
How do I get this calendar into Apple Calendar?
Download the .ics file on this page and open it on your iPhone or Mac. Apple Calendar offers to add the whole year in one go. That covers the textbook rotation. A real roster has swaps, overtime and cover shifts, and for that we make Lumical: photograph the roster and every shift lands in Apple Calendar. We make it, so read that with the obvious bias in mind.