1. The housekeeping director is assessing his staffing method to determine how many housekeepers are needed and the staffing method that will minimize salary expenses. The hospital has 200 beds, and the director estimated that 200 hours of housekeeping are needed daily. The 200 hours account for the 200 patient rooms and ancillary, administrative, and common areas. Based on the table below, calculate required FTEs and the expected salary expense and excess labor expense (i.e., percent increase over the lowest cost method of meeting labor needs) when only full-time employees are hired, full-time employees are hired, and overtime is utilized for fractional labor needs, and fulltime and parttime employees are hired.

Wage	$31,200
Productive days per FTE	230
Total housekeeping hours per day	73,000
Required days	9,125
Required FTEs
Expected Salary Expense
Staffing (FTEs)	Expense	% Increase
40
39+OT
39.67