Friday Feature – Recompute Salaries and the Affect Salaries Flag

Graduation day! We have reached the final blog of the Affect Salaries flag in Budget Management. Today we review the last Budget Perform Change option that uses the Affect Salaries flag. Over the course of the last month, we have reviewed all four of the options:

• Percentage Adjustments
• Load Salary Records
• Load Vacancies
• Recompute Salaries

The Recompute Salaries option reads the salary schedule and recomputes salaries and vacancies. This is different from the Load Salary Records option in two ways. First, it does not reload position accounts. Second, it doesn’t “load” amounts from the Salary Schedule, instead it a computes the ratio between the Budget Amount and Salary Rate Amount in the Salary Schedule and scales existing salary and vacancy budget lines based on the ratio. (Very smart. Move to the head of the class!)

Once again, we are going to repeat the same screen shot from Load Salaries and Load Vacancies so you can follow along.

Apply Salary Schedule Budget Amounts to Actuals Only – Using the screen shot, the actual salary budget lines (including subject grosses and benefits) will be recomputed using the ratio of $111,848.00/$114,248.00. (Remember, “actual” means salaries that were “locked in” when they were loaded or imported/entered as actual.) Also, since we are only affecting actuals, projections will not be recomputed.

Apply Salary Schedule Budget Amounts to Both Actuals and Projections – This is the same as above only it is going to also recompute salary projections and vacancy budget line items. (Remember, “projections” are salaries that were “open” when they were loaded or imported/entered as projections.)

Apply Salary Schedule Cell Amounts to Both Actuals and Projections – This would recompute all salary and vacancy budget lines using the Salary Rate.

Apply Salary Schedule Budget Amounts to Projections Only – This is going to leave those actual budget items alone, but recompute projections using the Budget Amount. Again, since we are only affecting projections, actuals will not be recomputed.

Now, that’s some A+ budget changes.

Of course, you are a star student so you remembered that regardless of your choice, benefit account/amounts will be recomputed, and benefit accounts will be created, if they do not already exist and if it is appropriate (as defined on the Ledger tab of the Organization record). And, you get extra credit if you already knew that recomputing salaries does not affect manual items.

And that’s it for our series on the Affect Salaries flag. Congratulations graduate!