Schedule G
FULLTIME EQUIVALENT (FTE) EMPLOYMENT
Fulltime equivalent (FTE) employment is the estimate of each special office's, ministry's, taxpayer-supported Crown corporation/agency’s and regional authority's annual staff utilization. The Budget Transparency and Accountability Act defines staff utilization to include all employees whose salaries are paid directly by the taxpayer-supported government reporting entity. The term "fulltime equivalent" is defined as the employment of one person for one full year or the equivalent thereof (for example, the employment of two persons for six months each). Ministry and special office FTEs are calculated by dividing each special office's and ministry's total hours of permanent, auxiliary, temporary, seasonal and overtime employment paid, or estimated to be paid, for the fiscal year, by the normal paid working hours for one fulltime employee for one year. Taxpayer-supported Crown corporation/agency FTEs are estimated in a similar manner.  Employees in taxpayer-supported Crown corporations and agencies whose salaries are included in the cost of capital projects are not counted as FTEs in order to maintain consistency between salaries expense and FTEs.
The table below provides a summary of estimated fulltime equivalent employment by special office, ministry and taxpayer-supported Crown corporation/agency for the 2002/03 and 2003/04 fiscal years. The 2002/03 ministry and special office numbers are restated to reflect program and staff transfers among ministries (see Schedule A for a detailed reconciliation). The 2002/03 FTE utilization is forecast to be 38,728 FTEs.
		2002/03		2003/04
	Legislation	230		300
	Officers of the Legislature	242		211
	Office of the Premier	343		312
	Ministry of Advanced Education	278		237
	Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries	351		329
	Ministry of Attorney General	3,514		3,464
	Ministry of Children and Family Development	4,869		4,274
	Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services	967		799
	Ministry of Competition, Science and Enterprise	177		149
	Ministry of Education	326		317
	Ministry of Energy and Mines	244		234
	Ministry of Finance	602		548
	Ministry of Forests	3,470		3,070
	Ministry of Health Planning	215		209
	Ministry of Health Services	2,616		2,525
	Ministry of Human Resources	2,599		2,310
	Ministry of Management Services	2,202		2,049
	Ministry of Provincial Revenue	937		988
	Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General	2,814		2,827
	Ministry of Skills Development and Labour	476		451
	Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management	1,292		954
	Ministry of Transportation	1,583		1,385
	Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection	1,140		998
	Management of Public Funds and Debt	—		—
	Other Appropriations	121		109
Total		31,608		29,049
	Taxpayer-Supported Crown Corporations and Agencies
	British Columbia Ferry Corporation 1	3,430		—
	Other 2	5,370		5,270
	Total Taxpayer-Supported Crown Corporations and Agencies	8,800		5,270
	Regional Authorities 3	—		150
	Total	40,408		34,469
1	Reflects transfer of BC Ferry Corporation FTEs to the new independent British Columbia Ferry Services Inc.
2	Includes 127 FTEs transferred from the Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services to the Royal British Columbia Museum Crown agency
	which will be established this fiscal year.
3	In 2003/04, the government reporting entity is expanded to include the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) governance authorities.
	Includes 150 FTEs transferred from MCFD.