How should hourly and part-time jobs be reported?
As specified in the previous FAQ, the OMB Guidance states Hourly and part time employees shall be calculated based on actual hours worked on the sponsored agreement and the institutions definition of a full workload for employment. Consequently, the job counts for hourly and part-time employees should be accumulated in a manner that is consistent with how time and effort normally is accounted for these types of employees and should be included in the jobs reporting. 7. How should Students, Post Docs, Research Fellows, and other similar positions be treated for jobs reporting? At the direction of OMB for the October 2009 ARRA reporting cycle, many institutions treated all (or almost all) of these positions as a job to be reported. When these positions are captured in the institutions payroll system, quantifying the FTE should be relatively straightforward. If the compensation associated with these positions is not captured in the payroll system, these positions could still be counted, b