. Prepare a salary projection report for the Jefferson City Fire Department for FY 2019 using the actual budget for FY 2018 as a model along with a budget request for two new fire fighter (2a) positions. Use the following information in your FY 2019 Salary Projections and budget requests (see Appendix 3B). Note that the budget has the number of employees in each position grade rather than listing each employee. Also, you should calculate the total cost of employment for each staff person.

The salary of the chief increased 7% while everyone else received a 5% increase.

FICA is 12.4% and Medicare is 2.9% for all employees. Only consider employer contributions to FICA and Medicare.

The cost of health insurance increased 5%.

The cost of uniforms increased 2%.

The fire fighters pay range is $60,000.00-580,000.00. You will pay the new fire fighters (2a) $60,000.00

The new fire fighters (2a) will receive the same benefits package as the other FY 2015 employees.

Cost of training the new fire fighters is $6,000 per employee.

The pension rate in FY 2019 is the same as it was in FY 2018.

The clerical staff member works a half day schedule 12 months per year (.5 FTE).

Complete the FTE column.

3. Jefferson City Fire Department
Personnel Services Budget
FY 2018
Position	FTE	Salary	SS	Health Ins.	Pension	Medicare	Uniforms	TOTAL
Chief	1	$87,000.00	$5,394.00	$2,160.00	$17,400.00	$1,261.50	$750.00	$113,965.50
Shift Commander	3	150,000.00	9,300.00	6,480.00	30,000.00	2,175.00	2,250.00	200,205.00
Fire Fighter 1a	12	420,000.00	26,040.00	25,920.00	84,000.00	6,090.00	9,000.00	571,050.00
Fire Fighter 1b	26	650,000.00	40,300.00	56,160.00	130,000.00	9,425.00	19,500.00	905,385.00
Clerical (PT)	0.5	45,000.00	2,790.00	0.00	9,000.00	652.50	0.00	57,442.50
TOTAL	42.5	$1,352,000.00	$83,824.00	$90,720.00	$270,400.00	$19,604.00	$31,500.00	$1,848,048.00
FY 2019
Position	FTE	Salary	SS	Health Ins.	Pension	Medicare	Uniforms	TOTAL
Chief
Shift Commander
Fire Fighter 1a
Fire Fighter 1b
Clerical (PT)
TOTAL
New Position
Budget Request
Position	FTE	Salary	SS	Health Ins.	Pension	Medicare	Uniforms	Training	TOTAL
Fire Fighter 2a
GRAND TOTAL
ALL POSITIONS
FY2019	FTE	Salary	SS	Health Ins.	Pension	Medicare	Uniforms	Training	TOTAL