---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3404"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3404"
heading: "Personnel ceilings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3404"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 34 — Part-Time Career Employment Opportunities"
---

# §3404. Personnel ceilings


In administering any personnel ceiling applicable to an [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) (or unit therein), an [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) employed by such [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) on a [part-time career employment](/usc/5/3401.md?p=2) basis shall be counted as a fraction which is determined by dividing 40 hours into the average number of hours of such [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2)’s regularly scheduled workweek. This section shall become effective on October 1, 1980.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–437, § 3(a), Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1057, § 3394; renumbered § 3404, Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(c)(1)(B), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1226.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

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