Full-time equivalent employee
In accounting, full-time equivalent employee means for the ALE count, a month's hours of every employee who was not full-time, each capped at 120, divided by 120. A full-time employee averages 30 hours a week, or 130 hours in a month.
Also called FTE.
Authority: Treas. Reg. §54.4980H-2(c) (opens in a new tab). Sources
The lesson that teaches this
From the free founder back-office course, taught on one company's books, with exercises to work it yourself.
What it is not called
Each of these means something else. Use one here and an accountant reading the product notices.
- part-timer
- headcount
Also in Benefits
Defined in Lexicon. This page is generated from that document, so the two can't disagree.