How do you figure parttime employees when counting employees per million? We have some parttime employees that work only every other Saturday (appr. 100 hours per year). We have been counting 2 parttime employees as 1 fulltime equivalent. Is this correct or is it based on the number of hours worked?

I have always totals the hours for all my part-time employees and divided it by the normal hours worked by full-time employees. (i.e. 40 hours)

100 divided by 2,080 = .048 employee equivalent.

2,080 hours per year = 40 hours per week (52 weeks)

I must be having a dumb flash. I don't understand your reply.

I think that they are stating that there are normally 2080 hours in a year (full-time equivalent) - therefor 100/2080 = .048 FTE.

What type of report are you filling out? Internal or the call report?

Then wouldn' t that make 20 employees at 100 hrs = to 1 f-t employee??

An FTE - assuming a 40 hour work week - works 2080 hours per year (52 weeks X 40 hours). FTE's are computed based on that baseline. Therefore, if your employee works 100 hours per year (doesn't hardly seem worth it!) - you divide 100 into 2080, and get .048 FTE. Or about 1/20th of an FTE.

Another example: an employee works 15 hours per week. 15 times 52 = 780 hours per year. 780 divided by 2080 = .375 or approximately 1/3 of an FTE.

Looks like I was really slow on the reply button! Yes, anonymous, it would take 20 employees that work 100 hours per year to make one FTE.

I need this information for both an internal report and the CALL report. Thanks for the explanation. I did finally figure it out. Guess I'm just having a "slow" day.

O.K., now everyone is on the same page. The key word is equivalent, with the hours that each employee works calculated as an equivalent to a full-time person. The goal is, of course, to come up with the lowest possible FTE number so that you do not appear to be overstaffed when compared to your peer group.