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Facebook Engagement Rate Calculator
Facebook is the toughest room in this set: about 1.3% is a typical rate under 1K followers, 0.8% at 1K to 10K, and 0.14% for Pages past a million.
Last updated: 2026-07-31
Facebook Page engagement rates read as catastrophic if you arrive from Instagram or TikTok. They are not. Organic reach on a Page has been a small fraction of its audience for years, so the same effort produces a fraction of the interactions against the same follower count.
Judged against Facebook itself, the picture is fair. Half of Pages under 1K followers sit above roughly 1.3%. At 1K to 10K the median is about 0.8%, at 10K to 50K about 0.52%, and above a million about 0.14%. Clearing 1% on a Page of any real size is genuinely strong.
Because the numbers are small, they move sharply. One post that catches a comment thread can double a monthly average, which is why an average across 10 to 12 posts is the only version worth tracking.
Not sure what your averages are? Open your last 10 posts, add up the likes and the comments, and divide each total by 10. Skip anything you boosted with ads, paid reach makes the number look better than the account is.
(likes + comments) / followers x 100
Enter your follower count and your average likes or comments to see your rate.
Every benchmark this page uses is printed further down, so you can read the numbers without entering anything at all.
How engagement rate is calculated
This calculator uses the engagement rate by followers formula, the one almost every public benchmark study reports, which is what makes the comparison below meaningful.
engagement rate = (average likes + average comments) / followers x 100
What counts as engagement
Likes and comments only. Saves, shares, clicks and views all matter for reach, but no two networks report them the same way, so folding them in makes your number impossible to compare against anyone else. Keep them as a separate note.
Why averages, not one post
One post is noise. Take your last 10 to 12 organic posts, add up the likes and the comments, divide each total by the number of posts, and use those two averages. Leave out anything you put ad spend behind: paid reach inflates the top of the formula without touching the bottom.
Followers, not reach
Rate by reach flatters you on a good week and punishes you on a viral one, and only you can see the input. Rate by followers uses a number anyone can verify, which is why it is the version benchmarks are published in.
Worked example
An account with 8,000 followers, averaging 210 likes and 18 comments, gets (210 + 18) / 8,000 x 100 = 2.85%. On Facebook that lands clear of the 0.8% median for that band.
Facebook engagement rate benchmarks by follower count
Median engagement rate for Facebook accounts in each follower band. The median is the middle of the pack: hit it and you are doing better than half the accounts your size.
| Followers | Median engagement rate | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Under 1K | 1.30% | The easiest band to score well in: a small audience that actually knows you. |
| 1K to 10K | 0.80% | About 38% lower than the band below it, purely because the audience got bigger. |
| 10K to 50K | 0.52% | About 35% lower than the band below it, purely because the audience got bigger. |
| 50K to 200K | 0.34% | About 35% lower than the band below it, purely because the audience got bigger. |
| 200K to 1M | 0.22% | About 35% lower than the band below it, purely because the audience got bigger. |
| 1M+ | 0.14% | About 36% lower than the band below it, purely because the audience got bigger. |
Benchmarks are estimates aggregated from public industry studies, last reviewed July 2026. Your niche and content mix can shift these numbers.
How to raise your Facebook engagement rate
- Chase comments rather than likes. Facebook keeps resurfacing a post while a conversation is still running under it, so a reply thread buys distribution that a like never will.
- Post natively and stop sending people away. Link posts get less reach than the same idea written out in full with the link in the first comment.
- Groups are where the engagement moved. If your Page rate is stuck at the floor, a Group around the same audience will usually outperform it several times over.
- Check whether your follower count matches your actual audience. Pages that ran like-campaigns years ago carry followers who have not opened Facebook since, and they never leave the denominator.
- Do not average boosted posts into your organic rate. On Facebook more than anywhere else, paid reach will quietly triple a number that is meant to describe organic health.
Frequently asked questions
What is a good engagement rate on Facebook?
Lower than on any other network here. Under 1K followers the median is about 1.3%. At 1K to 10K it is about 0.8%, at 10K to 50K about 0.52%, and above a million about 0.14%. Anything at or above 1% on a Page with real size is a strong result.
How do I calculate my Facebook engagement rate?
Average the likes and reactions plus the comments across your last 10 to 12 organic posts, divide by your Page follower count and multiply by 100. Reactions count as likes for this purpose, and boosted posts should be left out entirely.
Does reach or followers matter more on Facebook?
Reach is the more useful working number on Facebook, because organic reach is such a small share of followers that a by-followers rate mostly measures the algorithm rather than your content. Benchmarks are still published by followers, so use the by-followers rate to compare yourself against other Pages and reach to judge individual posts.
Why is my Facebook engagement rate so low?
Almost always organic reach rather than content quality. A typical Page post is shown to a small percentage of its followers, so even a post everyone would have liked only reaches a slice of them. Compare against the Facebook medians above rather than against your Instagram numbers.
Do shares count toward Facebook engagement rate?
Not in this formula, which uses likes and comments only so it can be compared with published benchmarks. Shares are the single strongest reach signal on Facebook though, so worth tracking separately as your best predictor of which posts will travel.
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