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Scale 1 · One position

Every position starts as a budget line item.

Not a name in a spreadsheet row — a financial record. One FTE, one budgeted cost, one department, one status. Everything below is built from records like this one.

1 Position ID ACC‑003
2 Title Senior Accountant
3 Department Accounting
4 FTE 1.0
5 Budgeted, annual $80,000
6 Status Filled by Maria Chen
1

Position ID

A permanent catalog number for the seat — independent of who fills it, or whether anyone does.

2

Title

What the seat is, not who's in it.

3

Department

Which budget this position rolls up into — the thread that runs through every scale below.

4

FTE

What fraction of a full-time seat this is. Most are 1.0. Some aren't.

5

Budgeted, annual

The number every actual dollar gets reconciled against — whether the seat is filled or not.

6

Status

Filled (by whom), or vacant (for how long). Both are tracked — a vacancy is data, not an absence of it.

Scale 2 · One department, 12 positions

Zoom out. A department is twelve of these.

Accounting: eight full-time desks, two part-time seats, two openings. PowerPCS doesn't just count them — it adds them up, and checks the total against what was budgeted.

ACC‑001

Controller

FTE1.0
Budgeted$125,000
● David OseiActual: $134,000
ACC‑002

Assistant Controller

FTE1.0
Budgeted$95,000
● Priya NairActual: $99,000
ACC‑003

Senior Accountant

FTE1.0
Budgeted$80,000
● Maria ChenActual: $95,000
ACC‑004

Staff Accountant

FTE1.0
Budgeted$68,000
● Tom ReillyActual: $70,000
ACC‑005

Staff Accountant

FTE1.0
Budgeted$68,000
● Angela CruzActual: $69,000
ACC‑006

AP Clerk

FTE1.0
Budgeted$52,000
● Ben OrtizActual: $53,000
Vacant
ACC‑007

AP Clerk (0.5)

FTE0.5
Budgeted$26,000
Open 8 months
ACC‑008

AR Clerk

FTE1.0
Budgeted$54,000
● Grace LinActual: $55,000
Vacant
ACC‑009

AR Clerk (0.5)

FTE0.5
Budgeted$27,000
Open 2 months
ACC‑010

Payroll Specialist

FTE1.0
Budgeted$61,000
● Sam PetrovActual: $69,000
ACC‑011

Financial Analyst

FTE1.0
Budgeted$88,000
● Wei ZhangActual: $100,000
ACC‑012

Financial Analyst (0.5)

FTE0.5
Budgeted$44,000
● Lena OseiActual: $46,000
Budgeted → Actual FTE
11.510.5
−1.0 FTE
Budgeted → Actual cost
$788,000$790,000
+$2,000
Open positions
2
8 months · 2 months open

Accounting is 1.0 FTE under budget for the year — and $2,000 over.

Two open seats saved $53,000. Raises on the other ten cost $55,000 — enough to flip the department over budget anyway. Headcount would have told you Accounting was fine.

Scale 3 · The whole company, 7 departments

Zoom out again. Every department rolls up the same way.

93.5 budgeted positions across seven departments, added the same way Accounting was — one position, then one department, now one company.

Budgeted → Actual FTE
93.586.5
−7.0 FTE
Budgeted → Actual cost
$6,828,000$6,640,000
−$188,000
Open positions
8
oldest: 8 months, Accounting

Accounting Review

FTE11.5 → 10.5
Cost+$2,000
2 open · oldest 8 mo

Marketing

FTE8.0 → 7.0
Cost−$40,000
1 open · 5 mo

Sales

FTE15.0 → 14.0
Cost−$40,000
1 open · 3 mo

Executive

FTE5.0 → 5.0
Cost+$25,000
0 open

Production — Line 1

FTE22.0 → 20.0
Cost−$70,000
2 open · 4 mo

Production — Line 2

FTE22.0 → 21.0
Cost−$40,000
1 open · 2 mo

Shipping

FTE10.0 → 9.0
Cost−$25,000
1 open · 6 mo

Company‑wide, that's $188,000 under budget. Drill into Accounting, and one department tells the opposite story.

Roll‑ups hide exactly what drill‑down finds. PowerPCS keeps both, at every level — one position, one department, one company — always reconciled, never rounded off.

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Core

Position Management

Every position in your organization gets its own record — independent of the people who fill it. Define its classification, budget target, organizational placement, and effective dates.

Positions persist through turnover. When an incumbent leaves, the position goes vacant. When a new incumbent is assigned, it goes filled. The position itself never disappears.

  • Job title, classification code, and position number
  • Status auto-calculated: filled, vacant, or overfilled
  • Up to eight configurable org levels
  • Budgeted FTE and salary targets per position
  • Active/inactive position tracking
  • CSV import for bulk loading existing position data
Position List — Finance Division
Budget Analyst IFilled
Budget Analyst IIVacant
Payroll SpecialistFilled
Sr. AccountantOverfilled
Finance DirectorFilled
5
Total
3
Filled
1
Vacant
1
Overfilled
Core

Incumbent Tracking

Assign employees to positions with FTE amounts, effective start and end dates, compensation data, and pay rate type. The system tracks the full history of who held every position and for how long.

One employee can hold multiple positions simultaneously. One position can have multiple incumbents — as long as their combined FTE doesn't exceed the budgeted amount.

  • Name, employee ID, and hire date
  • FTE allocation per position assignment
  • Effective start and end dates
  • Hourly, salaried, per diem, and contract pay rate types
  • Annualized budget cost auto-calculated
  • Full history retained — nothing is ever erased
Budget Analyst I — Incumbents
Sarah K.
Since Jan 2024  ·  1.0 FTE
Current
Prior Incumbents
James T.
Mar 2021 – Dec 2023  ·  1.0 FTE
Maria L.
Aug 2018 – Feb 2021  ·  0.5 FTE
Analysis

FTE & Budget Analysis

The position-to-company view above is built on this: budgeted vs. actual FTE and cost, reconciled and rolled up at any level of the org.

  • Vacancy cost — what unfilled positions cost in lost productivity
  • Overage identification — combined incumbent FTE > authorized
  • Roll up by org level (department, division, etc.)
Structure

Configurable Org Hierarchy

Map your organization across up to eight levels. Label them whatever your organization uses — Division, Department, Unit, Cost Center, Program, Grant Fund, School Site, or anything else.

Positions are slotted into the hierarchy. Reports, filters, and budget rollups all follow the same structure.

  • Up to 8 configurable org levels
  • Custom label names per level
  • Filter any report or list by org level
  • Budget rollup follows hierarchy
  • Reports-to relationship tracking between positions
  • Interactive onscreen org chart — click any box to re-center
PowerPCS onscreen org chart, showing five levels from Regional Vice President down to Production Technician
Reporting

Custom Reports

Build reports with the columns you need and the filters that matter to you. Save your report configurations. Export to CSV for any downstream use in finance, payroll, or board reporting.

  • Choose from all position and incumbent fields
  • Filter by org level, position status, FTE range, or any field
  • Save named report templates for reuse
  • Export to CSV anytime
  • Vacancy and overfill summary reports
  • Budget vs. actual cost reports
Saved Reports
Vacant Positions — All Departments
FTE Summary by Division
Budget vs. Actual — Q3
Incumbent History — Last 12 Months
Overfilled Positions Alert
Compliance

Full Audit History

Every change to every position and incumbent is recorded permanently: what changed, what it changed from and to, who made the change, and when. Nothing is ever quietly overwritten.

When your auditor, board, or Finance asks what the headcount looked like 18 months ago — you have the answer.

  • Change log on every position and incumbent record
  • Before/after values for every field
  • User and timestamp on every entry
  • Free-text reason noted on every incumbent change
  • Permanent — no cleanup or expiration
Change History — Budget Analyst I
Incumbent assigned
Sarah K. at 1.0 FTE  ·  Jan 8, 2024
Status changed
Vacant → Filled  ·  Jan 8, 2024
Incumbent ended
James T. — Resignation  ·  Dec 31, 2023
Pay rate updated
$52,000 → $54,500  ·  Jul 1, 2023
Account

Self-Serve Everything

Sign up, import your data, upgrade, downgrade, and cancel — all without talking to anyone. Billing is handled securely through Stripe. Your data is exportable any time, in a format you can use.

  • 14-day free trial, no card required to start
  • Upgrade or downgrade your plan anytime
  • Cancel in-app — no retention flow, no gauntlet
  • One-click data export (positions and incumbents to CSV)
  • Secure billing via Stripe
  • No sales calls, no implementation fees
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No lock-in.
Export your data anytime. Cancel anytime. Your headcount data belongs to you.

Every feature. Every plan.

All PowerPCS features are included regardless of which tier you're on. You're paying for position capacity, not feature access.