Enter Avery's salary
Record a full-time annual salary for Avery, check which assignment uses it, and distinguish recorded pay from calculated employee cost.
Updated September 22, 2026
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Enter Avery Reed’s agreed $60,000 full-time annual salary. The position budget is $70,000, but that budget does not create an employee pay entry.
Before you begin
Use the original full-time Avery assignment beginning January 1, 2027. Avery’s employee record belongs to Outpatient Services. You need Manage actual compensation for the relevant departments. Position or employee management alone does not give access to pay.
Open Avery’s existing pay timeline first. Continue only if no pay record already covers this assignment and period. If the course salary was entered earlier, inspect it instead of adding a duplicate.
Enter the salary
- Open Compensation > Employee pay.
- Select Avery Reed and choose Add assignment pay exception.
- Enter January 1, 2027 as the effective date.
- Select Avery’s Patient Services Coordinator assignment. This makes the agreement specific to this assignment.
- Choose Annual salary (scaled by FTE).
- Enter 60000.
- Save the pay value and wait for compensation to finish calculating. It continues until another value takes effect; pay values have no end date.
Pay has only an effective date. Enter another dated value when pay changes. The latest effective date applies; if two entries share that date, the most recently saved entry applies.
Follow the pay into the calculation
Open the assignment’s compensation result on January 1, 2027. It should identify this pay entry and show:
| Starting information | Calculation | Yearly cost |
|---|---|---|
| $60,000 full-time salary; 1 assigned FTE | $60,000 × 1 | $60,000 |
| Benefits added so far | None | $0 |
| Total before benefits | $60,000 + $0 | $60,000 |
Actual compensation means cost calculated from the pay and assignments recorded in FTE Tree. It does not confirm that payroll paid this amount or send a payroll payment.
The position budget remains $70,000. You now have two separate entries to compare: what the organization plans to spend and the employee’s agreed salary.
Practice a correction on another record
Use a separate practice employee and assignment, without benefits. Enter a $60,000 annual salary, then imagine the approved document actually said $61,000 from the same start date.
- Open that pay record and choose its correction action.
- Change the amount to 61000, retaining the original correct date.
- Enter a reason such as “Corrected amount to match the approved agreement.”
- Save and check the pay history and $61,000 yearly cost for the full-time assignment.
If the agreement genuinely changed later, add the later pay change instead. An employee-wide pay record supplies the default to matching assignments; a pay entry for one assignment takes priority for that assignment. Different working arrangements shows that choice with two half-time assignments.
Continue to add estimated benefits.