Labor Cost Distribution (LCD)
In the Human Resources Management System (officially called HCM or Human Capital Management), organizational entities on campus are identified by Department ID rather than Agency and Reporting Unit. As part of this, all employees are paid out of one payroll agency, which is General Fund Agency 255. Labor Cost Distribution (commonly called LCD) is the functionality in HCM which distributes salary and benefit costs to the proper funding source in the Finance Management System (FMS).
The LCD functionality, which is maintained by the Budget Administration & Operations Office, is achieved in HCM through the use of a department budget table and account codes in the LCD module, and these two things, along with some additional distribution logic, engineer the process. The labor distribution results from this LCD process are then exported into FMS as summary line item expenditures.
The benefits of Labor Cost Distribution are that most employees who are funded from different sources receive one paycheck, more detailed reporting can be obtained, labor expenses can be distributed by a group of employees, and there is greater integration with FMS. In addition, unlike the previous legacy systems, employee salary and benefit detail is available to campus users from HCM and LCD.
Since the requirements for protecting confidential employee data are increasingly in the limelight due to California government code and other regulations, it is extremely important that a campus department or division carefully determines who will be able to see confidential employee data. It is recommended that no more than one or two people in an area are authorized to have confidential employee data access. To be authorized to have access to LCD data, you will need to complete and submit an Access Request for LCD form.
Authorized LCD users may obtain instructions on running and viewing LCD reports as follows:
- Instructions to run the reports
- Instructions to view data and reports
Questions on Labor Cost Distribution should be directed to Jack Mao, Tiffany Cheng, or Rowena Manalo.
