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Anonymous
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How does Power BI calculate the totals? The sum does not add up in matrices

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The measures are really simple. Is there a more elegant way to get Power BI to correctly aggregate these numbers?

IC 2023 = CALCULATE(Employee[All Count],Employee[Management Level]="Individual Contributor",'Employee'[Year]=2023)
All Count
CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT('Employee'[Person Number]), USERELATIONSHIP('Dimension'[Date],Employee[Current Hire Date]))
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Syk
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I'd recommend giving this a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgAkejrup8

 

Essentially the total's won't sum up all the employees for each month in your current measure because that would be saying that nearly 50k people worked for this company in 2023. When in reality, it's counting the number of people there each month and the year is giving you a count of everyone that worked there in 2023. If that doesn't make ANY sense, watch that video as he articulates it much clearer.

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