# Weighted intermediate goals

Not every intermediate goal matters equally to an employee's overall success. To reflect that in a target agreement, you can weight the intermediate goals and pin down priorities exactly.

Weighting works with a numeric factor. By default every intermediate goal has a factor of 1 and so counts *equally*. A single goal's influence is its weighting factor as a share of the sum of all weighting factors.

## A weighting example

A target agreement has **3 intermediate goals**:

1. Goal A is weighted with a factor of 1
2. Goal B is weighted with a factor of 2
3. Goal C is weighted with a factor of 7

**The sum of all weighting factors is 10** (`1 + 2 + 7 = 10`).

So the intermediate goals contribute to overall achievement as follows:

1. **Goal A: 10%** (`1 / 10 = 0.1 → 10%`)
2. **Goal B: 20%** (`2 / 10 = 0.2 → 20%`)
3. **Goal C: 70%** (`7 / 10 = 0.7 → 70%`)

## Set the weighting

To set the weighting of the intermediate goals:

1. [Create a target agreement](/en/c/target-agreements/create-target-agreement) or [edit an existing one](/en/c/target-agreements/edit-target-agreement).
2. Scroll to the **Intermediate Goals** section. There you see every intermediate goal as a card, one below the other.
3. Each card has a **Weight** row with an input field and a scales icon. To the right of the field, the current percentage weighting is shown.

 ![Weight field in an intermediate goal with scales icon and percentage display](/attachments/ziele/gewichtete-unterziele/gewichtung-eingabefeld.png)

4. Enter the weighting factor you want as a whole number. The percentage next to the field updates immediately.

 ![Unequal weighting: the first goal has factor 3 (75%), the second factor 1 (25%)](/attachments/ziele/gewichtete-unterziele/gewichtung-ungleich.png)

5. Repeat step 4 for every intermediate goal.
6. Click **Save** at the bottom of the form.

 ![Save button at the bottom of the form](/attachments/ziele/gewichtete-unterziele/gewichtung-speichern.png)

## How the weighting is shown

After you save, the weighting appears in the target agreement view — but only if the intermediate goals are not all weighted equally. It shows directly next to each goal's title, in the format **Weight: XX% (Y✕)**.

 ![Weighting shown in the target agreement: "Weight: 75.0% (3✕)" and "Weight: 25.0% (1✕)"](/attachments/ziele/gewichtete-unterziele/gewichtung-anzeige.png)

If all intermediate goals are weighted equally (for example all with factor 1), the weighting display is hidden automatically.

## Effect on overall progress

The weighting feeds straight into the target agreement's overall progress. easyreview calculates progress as a weighted average of all intermediate goals.

Example with two quantified intermediate goals:

* **Revenue** (weight 3, i.e. 75%): 60% achieved
* **New customers** (weight 1, i.e. 25%): 40% achieved

Overall progress works out as: `(60% × 0.75) + (40% × 0.25) = 45% + 10% = 55%`

Without weighting (both factor 1) it would be: `(60% + 40%) / 2 = 50%`

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Intermediate goals with a weighting factor of 0 don't count toward overall progress.

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