NPS is calculated as the percentage of respondents who are promoters minus the percentage who are detractors; passives count only in the denominator.

Checked 2026-10-02

Your Net Promoter Score is simply the percentage of customers who are promoters minus the percentage who are detractors.
Vendor
Bain
Product
Net Promoter System
Subsystem
NPS methodology
Deployment
not restricted
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-10-02
Checked
2026-10-02

Sources

Cite this note

APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). CSAT and NPS surveys in contact centers: source note contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-formula. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-formula

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-formula,
  title  = {CSAT and NPS surveys in contact centers: source note contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-formula},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-formula},
  note   = {Source note contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-formula, checked 2026-10-02}
}

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