Burnout Assessment Calculator

What burnout actually is

Burnout is not ordinary tiredness, and it is not a diagnosis either. The World Health Organization added it to ICD-11 in 2019 as an occupational phenomenon, specifically not a medical condition, and defined it as chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. The definition names three dimensions: energy depletion, mental distance from the job, and reduced professional efficacy.

How this self-check is scored

Ten statements, each rated 1 (rarely) through 5 (always), giving a total between 10 and 50. There is no zero on this scale. Someone with no burnout at all still scores 10, so read the total against the 10-50 range rather than as a fraction of 50.

The ten items fall into four groups, and the result reports each one separately. Two people can reach the same total from completely different places, and the group that is driving it is what tells you where to push.

The first three follow the WHO dimensions. The fourth is not part of any formal instrument, and it is included because it is usually what other people notice first.

Reading the bands

This is not the Maslach Burnout Inventory

The MBI is the research standard. It is licensed rather than free, it uses a 0-6 frequency scale, and it sets separate cut-offs for each subscale instead of one combined total. This page is a free self-check built on the same three dimensions, so the number it gives you does not map onto published MBI norms and should not be compared against them. A scored MBI goes through occupational health or a licensed provider.

What actually moves the number

Maslach and Leiter’s work points at six areas of working life: workload, control, reward, community, fairness, and values. The finding worth carrying away is that fixing even one of them measurably lowers burnout, which means you do not have to fix everything at once.

Workload is the one people reach for first, and it is frequently not the one doing the damage. A manageable workload you have no say over tends to be worse than a heavy one you control.

Rest helps and does not cure. A two-week holiday reliably drops exhaustion scores, and the effect is largely gone within about a month of being back in the same job. If your score lands in the moderate or high band, the thing that has to change is the shape of the work.