# Expected progress

What Expected today means on a goal, how Brev works it out from the time period and milestones, and where it shows.

Expected progress is where a goal should be today if it moves at a steady pace to its target. Brev compares your progress with it to suggest a status.

## How Brev works it out {#how-it-is-worked-out}

- Brev draws a pace line across the goal's time period. It starts at 0%, or a Metric's starting value, and ends at 100%, or the target.
- Expected progress is where that line sits today.
- With [milestones](https://help.brev.io/milestones/), the line runs through each milestone's value on its date instead of straight.
- A Project with a due date paces to that date, not to the end of its period. See [Project dates](https://help.brev.io/project-dates/).
- A Stay above, Stay below or Stay between metric has no pace line. Its chart shows the value to hold as a flat line.

## Where it shows {#where-it-shows}

- **Goal page**: **Expected today** in the Progress card, and the dashed line on the chart.
- **Check-in dialog**: A dotted marker on the bar, with **Expected today** under the slider.
- **Goal list**: Hover a row's progress bar. The card shows the expected progress for today.

![The goal page's Progress card with Expected today beside the current value, and the dashed pace line on the chart.](https://help.brev.io/doc-assets/screenshots/goal-detail-goal-page.png)

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