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The setup page for personnel, including To Be Determined (TBD) persons, consists of four sections:

Primary Position Type & Fringe Benefit Rate

This section contains the values for the person added, as described in the following table. This following image shows the fields with example data for a budget that includes APL benefits.

primary position type and fringe benefit rate section

Field Description
Name The person selected in the Personnel Chooser or “TBD” for placeholder personnel
Title The selected person’s title or the user-entered title for a TBD person.
UW Sub Object Code The UW Sub Object Code for the person.
Include APL Benefits Displays if you selected Budget includes Applied Physics Lab (APL) in the Advanced Settings section of the Properties tab. If checked, the Benefit Type for this person will be APL.
Benefits Exemptions Provides current HR benefit exemption information on the individual.
Current Campus or APL Benefit Rates Displays the appropriate benefit information for this person.

If Include APL Benefits is checked, the two APL Rates will display.

Cascade Entries If checked, will indicate that the system cascaded salary values across periods.

Project Role and Effort

This section indicates whether the person’s position is Calendar or Academic, their role in the project, and the amount of effort.

project role and effort section

Field Description
Worker Position Type Calendar is a 12-month period. Academic/Summer consists of a 9-month academic period plus a 3-month summer period.
Project Role Roles are:

  • Principal Investigator
  • Application PI
  • Multiple PI
  • Mentor
  • Co-Investigator
  • Faculty
  • Key Personnel
  • Post Doctoral Associate
  • Graduate Student
  • Undergraduate Student
  • Secretarial/Clerical
  • Fellow (deprecated)
  • Other (default)
% Effort

Academic % Effort

Calendar % Effort

Used to calculate the Person Months, Period and Project Totals for the person’s (01) Salaries and Wages line items. It is dependent on appointment type.

  • For a “Calendar” appointment, the percentage of effort is calculated on a 12-month period.
  • For an “Academic” appointment, the effort periods are broken into two terms, Academic (9 months) and Summer (3 months).
Academic Hours Per Month

Summer Hours Per Month

Displayed only for Academic Appointment types, once for Academic and once for Summer. The value is equal to the % Effort times 173.3 (the number of hours in a standard month).

Salary, Wages, and Stipends

This section displays information about the person’s earnings.

salary, wages, and stipends section

Note: Salaries are adjusted to reflect any salary cap on the Targets & Caps Tab. Personnel with a capped salary are indicated.

Field Description
Date Retrieved  System-generated date (mm/dd/yyyy) indicating when the salary information was retrieved from the source system.
UW Monthly Salary The salary of the person based on a 100% FTE.
Clinical Monthly Salary The clinical salary information where applicable.

The earnings table lists all of the earnings for the selected person.

Column Description
Checkbox This is checked by default to include this row in the Starting Monthly Salary total
PositionID  Unique identifier for the Workday position
Obj-SubObject  This value is 01 for Salary and Wages, followed by the sub-object code for the selected person
Cost Center  Cost center name and code
Organization  Organizational unit name and 10-digit code
Position Title  Selected person’s title for this position
Pay Type  Possible pay types are:

  • Allowance
  • Stipend
  • Basepay

Administrative and Endowed Supplements are included for Non-Faculty Personnel.

Unallocated Rate Monthly or Hourly Rate
Distribution %  Proportion of total for this earning type
FTE Rate  Total of Unallocated Rate value times the Distribution percent

The Starting Monthly Salary field will reflect the total of the selected (checked) earning rows.

Notes

This section displays any user-entered notes for this personnel entry.

Notes may have been added to your budget for line items or on the F&A tab. Notes will display on the print and exported versions of the budget.

There is a Notes field on the Line Setup page for the following line items:

  • (01) Salary and Wages
  • (02) Service Contracts
  • (03) Other Contractual Services
  • (04) Travel
  • (05) Supplies and Materials
  • (06) Equipment
  • (07) Retirement and Benefits (period entry pages only)
  • (08) Student Aid
  • (10) Capital Projects
  • (38) Unallocated
  • (25) Facilities and Administrative (period entry pages only)

There is also a Notes icon on the F&A tab. 

The notes icon will display an asterisk (*) to indicate that notes were added.

Budget notes icon with asterisk

Click on the icon to expand the notes box and view the text.

budget notes example

The Budget History section lists different versions of the budget with status, dates, and comments. The eGC1 History section displays if the budget is linked to an eGC1, showing the approval history.

Budget History

The Budget History table includes an entry for each status change and for any “timestamp” versions created, as shown in the following image.

History Tab

Budget Edit Numbers

Each time a budget change was saved, the Budget Edit Number incremented. So the first number shown includes all of the data saved from the creation setup steps.

Note: Only Budget Edit Numbers associated with key actions, such as a change to the status of the budget, display in the Budget History.

To see a read-only version of the budget at a specific point in time, click the corresponding Budget Edit Number in the table. The budget will open in a new window with a red “read-only” banner.  Use the Close Window link in the upper right to close this display.

Timestamps and Comments

The system automatically logs a comment in the Budget History for certain actions. Timestamps could also have been created manually, with optional comments.

Linked eGC1 History

If one (or more) periods of the SAGE budget is linked to an eGC1, the approvals history for each eGC1 will display below the Budget History. The section title is made up of the period description and the phrase “eGC1 History and Comments for” followed by the eGC1 number.

Select the section heading (eGC1 History and Comments) or the plus sign to expand the section. The history will include a Budget Edit Number for each entry, making it easy to see if the budget changed during the eGC1 approval process. The following image shows an example of this section.

e g c 1 history on budget

Select the View eGC1 link to display the eGC1 in a new window.

The Periods tab displays the budget’s period values.

Each period has a description, start date, and end date. The systems ensures that the dates are contiguous. This means the start date of the next period is the day after the end date of the preceding period. In other words, there are no gaps of time between periods.

The following image shows an example.

budget periods values

Changes cannot be made to a legacy budget.

Sub budgets may be included in any budget. Each type of sub budget serves a particular purpose.

Field Description
Internal UW Budget Since it inherits all of the parent budget’s UW business rules, benefit rates, and F&A settings, it can be used to break out budgets for separate UW departments, for example.
Fabrication Budget The data in this sub budget rolls up to a single line on the parent budget under the (06) Equipment category.
Subcontract Budget The data in this sub budget rolls up to a single line on the parent budget under the (03) Other Contractual Service category.

A subcontract sub budget can also support custom external F&A rates and external benefit rates.

The Sub Budgets tab lists all sub budgets associated with the parent budget.

Sub Budgets list

If there are existing sub budgets, the following information displays:

Field Description
Ref # The unique number assigned to the sub budget. Click it to display the budget’s worksheet.
Type Internal UW Budget, Fabrication Budget, or Subcontract Budget
Working Title The name of the sub budget.
Origin Describes the source of this sub budget – either created directly or imported (copied).

Delete link displays to the far right of each sub budget listed. Click the link to remove the sub budget from the parent budget.

Below the list are two links.

  • Add Sub Budget: Click this to create a new sub budget.
  • Import Existing Budget: Click this to search for and select an existing budget to be related to this parent budget. The imported budget will be added as an Internal UW type sub budget.

Another way to access a sub budget is through the list at the bottom of the parent worksheet.

sub_10

When viewing the worksheet for the main (parent) budget, or a sub budget, you will see a set of icons at the upper right of the sheet. They allow you to make adjustments to what you see on the worksheet, and to perform actions on the worksheet. The set of icons are shown in the following image, and are numbered left to right.

budget worksheet icons

The icons are:

  1. Full Screen Budget, and Close Full Screen Budget
  2. Show all sub-object budget lines, and Hide all sub-object budget lines
  3. Print Budget
  4. Export Budget to Excel
  5. Create a copy of this budget – this feature is no longer available.
  6. Delete this budget  – this feature is no longer available

Display Full Screen

These icons allow you to choose how you view the worksheet within the browser window.

budget icons with the open and close fullscreen icons circled

The “magnifier with plus” icon (to the left) allows you to expand the worksheet to fill the whole browser window, allowing you to see more of the sheet details, rather than the SAGE and budget tabs.

The “magnifier  with minus” icon (to the right) returns you to the standard view.  When you’re in full screen mode, you can also use the Close Full Screen link in the upper-left corner of the screen.

Show All Sub-Object Budget Lines

You can use these icons to fully expand all of the line items in your budget.

budget icons with the expand and contact icons circled

The “plus” icon expands the worksheet, and displays the sub-object lines you have already entered and the Add buttons for each section.

The “minus” icon contracts the worksheet back to displaying just the object code summary lines.

Print the Budget

This icon displays a printable copy of your budget.

budget icons with print circled

A new browser window will appear with the budget data formatted for printing.

The output includes two different formats of the data: the first is line-by-line for all periods; the second is to help you complete the SR 424 (R&R) Detailed Budget used in Grants.gov submissions.

Export the Budget to Excel

This icon exports your budget as an Excel spreadsheet.

budget icons with export circled

You will be prompted to open Excel.

The output includes two different formats of the data: the first is line-by-line for all periods; the second is to help you complete the SR 424 (R&R) Detailed Budget used in Grants.gov submissions.

Note: only the values export, not the formulas.

The Student Aid (08-00) line item links directly to personnel setup in the (01) Salaries and Wages section of the budget. It may be used for specific personnel sub-object codes (33, 34, 43, 44, 51-54, 91-94).

This page presents the information for all of the periods for the chosen person. The values are from the Salary and Wages section.

The information displayed here is not directly editable.

  • Quarterly Tuition Rate displays the value for this person, such as: Standard Campus.
  • Number of Quarters displays the value entered for the particular period when the person was added in the Salary and Wages section.
  • Increase % (percent) is the percentage rate that applies to the Quarterly Tuition Rate.
  • Total Tuition is the dollar amount of the tuition.

The Sea Pay line item appears if the Budget includes Sea Pay checkbox is selected on the Properties Tab. Use it to include additional work hours above a standard 40 hour work week when personnel are at sea.

sea pay line item in the salary and wages section

The Sea Pay Calculation accommodates up to an additional 44 hours per week for personnel at sea.

Sea Pay Personnel List and Benefits

Click in any period to open the Sea Pay Personnel List.

entry screen for sea pay hours

Field Description
Name Shows the name of the individual or TBD person added, followed by their Title.
Monthly ($) For salaried personnel, this value is derived from the “Monthly Base Salary” plus any salary inflation rate increases for a period. For hourly personnel, this value is the “Rate/Hour” value plus any salary inflation rate increases for a period multiplied by 173.3 (hours per average month).
Hourly Rate ($) For salaried personnel, this value is the Monthly value divided by 173.3 (hours per average month). For hourly personnel, this value is the “Rate/Hour” value plus any salary inflation rate increases for a period.
Hours Enter the value that represents the actual “Sea Pay” hours worked for each period.
Period Total ($) Equal to Hourly Rate times Hours.

This section indicates the specific object, and sub-object, codes that are included in the F&A base being used. Budget values for this period will display for included object codes. The Amount Subject to Base, Base & Rate, and Total F&A values for this period are also displayed.

Use the plus sign (+) to fully expand the list and display all of the sub-object codes. The minus sign (-) will contract the entire list. You can expand, and then contract, an individual object code by clicking on it.