QUESTION: My client provides monthly files, but the values for salary include the amounts that have been paid since the beginning of the year, how can I get true monthly values? The field Salary looks like:

	Begin Date	End date	Amount
	⁞	⁞	⁞
	11/1/2009	11/30/2009	41,250.00
	12/1/2009	12/31/2009	45,000.00
	1/1/2010	1/31/2010	4,000.00
	2/1/2010	2/28/2010	8,000.00
	3/1/2010	3/31/2010	12,250.00
	4/1/2010	4/30/2010	16,750.00
	5/1/2010	5/31/2010	21,000.00
	6/1/2010	6/30/2010	25,000.00
	⁞	⁞	⁞

 

I would like it to look like:

	Begin Date	End date	Amount
	⁞	⁞	⁞
	11/1/2009	11/30/2009	⁞
	12/1/2009	12/31/2009	3,700.00
	1/1/2010	1/31/2010	4,000.00
	2/1/2010	2/28/2010	4,000.00
	3/1/2010	3/31/2010	4,250.00
	4/1/2010	4/30/2010	4,500.00
	5/1/2010	5/31/2010	4,250.00
	6/1/2010	6/30/2010	4,000.00
	⁞	⁞	⁞

 

ANSWER: Define another pay field to hold the net values on an annual basis and use this field for the salary history.

1. Define a numerical Start & Stop array: Salary_unaccumulated.

2. In the Data Defaults of the census specifications, default the field Salary_unaccumulated to 1 #MPNET Salary.