You don't say how your calendar is laid out but for a count of the sick days
try something like:
=COUNTIF(B2:H6,"S")
and for time:
=COUNTIF(B2:H6,"S")*TIME(8,,)
and format the cell as [h]:mm

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>I am creating an attendance tracking worksheet, when someone calls out sick
> they can use sicktime so they can get paid and they receive an occurence.
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> number
> of occurences. Is there such a formula? Thanks!