diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py b/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
index f0669565f..f91f4e318 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
@@ -401,6 +401,16 @@ def calculate_total_num_steps(cfg, train_dataset, tokenizer):
             LOG.info(f"📝 UPDATE CONFIG WITH: `total_num_tokens: {total_num_tokens}`")
             cfg.total_num_tokens = total_num_tokens
 
+        if not cfg.total_supervised_tokens:
+            total_supervised_tokens = (
+                train_dataset.data.column("labels")
+                .to_pandas()
+                .apply(lambda x: np.sum(np.array(x) != -100))
+                .sum()
+            )
+            LOG.info(f"`total_supervised_tokens: {total_supervised_tokens}`")
+            cfg.total_supervised_tokens = total_supervised_tokens
+
         if cfg.sample_packing_eff_est:
             total_num_steps = (
                 # match count to len est in dataloader