Working with open jobs in a scenario

you can use your headcount planning scenario to propose changes in your charthop organization's internal structure when hiring and filling open jobs this section includes the following topics move a person in a scenario exchange a job in a scenario fill a job in a scenario how an open job's start date affects fiscal year cost an open job's planned start date determines how much of it lands inside a given fiscal year or quarter when you view scenario cost by fiscal year or quarter (see viewing scenario cost by fiscal year or quarter https //docs charthop com/scenarios ), moving a job's start date later in the period lowers its cost for that period, because the job is only paid for the months it's active the annualized view doesn't change it always reflects the full year cost for example, for an open staff engineer role at $200,000/year in a fiscal year running apr mar planned start months active in the fiscal year fiscal year cost annualized october 2026 6 $100,000 $200,000 january 2027 3 $50,000 $200,000 this makes the financial upside of a later start date visible as you plan push the start date out, and the fiscal year cost drops live an open job only contributes cost once it has a salary to price from (planned compensation or a compensation band) unpriced open jobs count as $0 and won't move the fiscal year figure packages https //www charthop com/pricing/ \basic\ \|\ \ headcount planning | \\ compensation reviews | \\ performance | \\ engagement \