Understanding Full Time Equivalent Management

PeopleSoft Human Resources features easy-to-use tools to establish Full Time Equivalent (FTE) counts and maximums for departments in your organization. Once you set up your FTE budget for a department by classification (Classified, Unclassified, Temporary, or All), the system balances your budgeted FTE against your actual FTE as you maintain positions, hire workers, or maintain worker information. The system then lets you know if you've exceeded your budgeted FTE.

On the Departments - Comm. Acctg. And EG page (DEPARTMENT_TBL_CA), you can set up each department to produce either a warning or an error message when you exceed the department's FTE maximum. You can also indicate if you don't want the system to perform an FTE edit for a particular department.

If you select Error or Warning, the system compares the actual FTE count to the appropriate FTE maximum in the following circumstances:

• A position is created or changed.

• A person is hired or moved into a new position/department.

• An FTE is changed manually at the job level or the position level.

• The FTE maximums are modified.

When a position, job, or FTE cap record with an effective date prior to the current system date is added, modified, or deleted, the system performs the FTE edit as of the current system date. When a future-dated record is added, modified, or deleted, the system performs the FTE edit as of the future date.