Title 5, Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-102

§3404 Personnel Ceilings

Title 5 › PART III — EMPLOYEES › Subpart B — Employment and Retention › CHAPTER 34 — PART-TIME CAREER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES › § 3404

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

When counting staff against a personnel limit, a part-time career worker must be counted as a fraction equal to their average regularly scheduled workweek hours divided by 40. This rule became effective on October 1, 1980.

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Title 5, §3404

Government Organization and Employees, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

In administering any personnel ceiling applicable to an agency (or unit therein), an employee employed by such agency on a part-time career employment basis shall be counted as a fraction which is determined by dividing 40 hours into the average number of hours of such employee’s regularly scheduled workweek. This section shall become effective on October 1, 1980.

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Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–454 renumbered section 3394 of this title as this section.

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Citation

5 U.S.C. § 3404

Title 5, Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102