The Custom Operators command allows you to define your own accrual basis operators. These custom operators may be defined as any one of six basic types:

Salary (e.g., #SALARY)

Final Average Salary (e.g., n #FAS m),

Service (e.g., #SERVICE)

Average Wage Base (e.g. #AVGWB n)

U.S. Covered Compensation (e.g., #CVCP),

U.S. Social Security Primary Insurance Amount (e.g., #PIA) or

The operators listed in parentheses above are ProAdmin’s standard operators for these values. Custom operators allow you to create new operators that act in a similar fashion. For example, the standard #FAS operator averages consecutive high salaries. You can create a custom operator, perhaps #NONCONSECFAS, to average non-consecutive high salaries.

The customizing options for each type of operator initially are set to match the standard operators.

Name is a short description that will be used to reference the Custom Operator in an accrual basis expression. The name must start with the “#” symbol (if you forget to include it, ProAdmin will add it automatically).

Description may be any descriptive phrase, including spaces.

Type of operator selects the type of operator you wish to create. Once you have selected the type, the select a topic to edit box will display the options that you need to change to customize your operator. Click on each topic to display the window with the parameters for that topic.