Texas A&M University’s Public Policy Research Institute recently completed a staffing estimation calculator as part of a study commissioned by the Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA) made in response to a legislative rider to assess the staffing levels and salaries of court personnel across Texas.
The calculators, one for clerk support personnel staff estimation and another for court support personnel staffing estimation, take the number of current staff and total number of tasks, and the number of hours it takes one staff member to complete one task (split into the different categories of likely tasks and fields for additional functions) to calculate the number of hours, needed staff and resultant number of positions to fill.
Some of the default tasks include processing case filings, passport applications, jury administration, files for appeals and office administration.
The websites for the calculators specifically state that they are each “designed to be a tool for court administrators, managers, clerks, and judges to estimate the number of staff needed to perform the necessary administrative support tasks for their offices,” and include links to both the original study and an explanation of the methodology behind the calculations.