Split an employees salary between two different departments

Question

I have an employee whose salary needs to be split across multiple departments. How can I accomplish this?

Answer

If an employee needs to be split into two or more rows, a number column should be added to the personnel sheet to determine what percentage of salary should go to each row. You can then utilize splits on the sheet so that each split represents a department that the employee is assigned to.

 

The Partial Headcount and Headcount formulas should then be revised to multiply by this new column as in the examples below. Notice that a ROW.DeptPct function is added in each case, to represent the allocation percentage:

Partial Headcount

Old Formula Example

• monthfraction(ROW.StartDate,ROW.EndDate, this, 30)

New Formula Example

• monthfraction(ROW.StartDate,ROW.EndDate, this, 30)*ROW.DeptPct

Headcount

Old Formula Example

• if(versionmonth(this) >= versionmonth(ROW.StartDate) and (isblank(ROW.EndDate) or versionmonth(this) <= versionmonth(ROW.EndDate)), 1, 0)

New Formula Example

• if(versionmonth(this) >= versionmonth(ROW.StartDate) and (isblank(ROW.EndDate) or versionmonth(this) <= versionmonth(ROW.EndDate)), 1*ROW.DeptPct, 0)

 

Other formulas that reference the Partial Headcount and Headcount accounts will then be affected without revision, e.g. Hours and Salary. However, you will want to be sure to examine all formulas to see if others need to be modified. For example, the PayRate formula will likely need to be modified to include "Headcount>0" instead of the default "Headcount=1". Otherwise, raises will not be included in the PayRate calculation if headcount is less than one, which would be the case for any employee that is split across departments.

In addition, the decimal precision on the headcount and partial headcount accounts should be greater than zero so that they can display fractional values.