The Exclude salary dialog allows you to ignore certain reported and projected salary amounts for purposes of ProAdmin's standard and custom salary operators (e.g., #SALARY and #FAS) when service earned during the period does not meet a specified threshold (e.g., one year of service).

If checked, the Exclude salaries from calculations when service earned in a measurement period is less than _____ box allows you to specify a limit of service (between 0 to 1, inclusive) that must be earned (beginning with the first measurement period, whether or not any salary was reported) to consider the salary (via a Salary Definition Set) in a custom operator. If the specified amount of service is not credited during the measurement period, any salary earned during that period is ignored (i.e., set to $0).

The Using Service Definition Set multi-choice field specifies the Service Definition Set  that measures the service for this purpose.  It defaults to the Census Specifications <Base Service Set>, or you may select from the list of defined Service Definition Sets included in the current Project.  The button accesses the library to create and modify Service Definition Set library entries.

The measurement period for the Salary Definition will impact how this parameter is applied.  For example, if the measurement period is plan year, but salaries are reported monthly, you will need to exclude all 12 months of salaries in order to exclude the entire plan year's salary.

The For final average salary calculations, ignore excluded salaries when determining consecutive salaries check box indicates whether the excluded measurement periods should be considered when determining consecutive salaries.  If checked and, for example, the 2004 plan year salary was excluded because insufficient service was earned that year, the 2001 - 2006 salaries are  considered to be 5 years of consecutive salaries for FAS operator purposes.  This parameter can be further qualified by checking the unless _____ or more consecutive calendar years (or other applicable measurement period) are excluded box.  This latter parameter allows you to enter an override to the exclusion rule above by entering the number of measurement periods after which a break in consecutivity is assumed.  

For example, if the Salary Definition measurement period is months, you might choose to exclude salaries for months where less than .0833 years of service are earned.  You might further choose to ignore these excluded months for determining a final average salary based on 60 consecutive months of salary, except when 12 or more consecutive months have been excluded. In this case, if the entire 2004 plan year is excluded, the months from 1/1/2001 to 12/31/2006 would NOT be considered 60 consecutive months,but if less than the 12 consecutive months were excluded, the period would contain (several) 60 consecutive month periods.