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title: "New Field: Total Hours"
description: The "Total Hours" field is available in the Volunteer Grids, Filters, Email Merge fields and Surveys
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# New Field: Total Hours

## The "Total Hours" field is available in the Volunteer Grids, Filters, Email Merge fields and Surveys

![gridtotalhours-1](https://help.samaritan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/gridtotalhours-1.png?width=313&name=gridtotalhours-1.png)

**The benefit of this field is to be able to pull in the current, total hours for any give volunteer. If you ever wanted to send an email update to many volunteers and insert a field that would show their total hours to date, then this feature is for you!**

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