PMP Application Hour Calculation

So you are experienced in PM but try to calculate hrs in years of experience. Example:- 40 hrs. a week and 40*4=160 hrs. in a Month and so on.

If you are spending days working on this, you're making it harder than it needs to be.

I knew people who spent weeks on the application. From their experiences it seemed unnecessarily difficult.

After I gathered my information, it took 10 minutes to complete the application. I was guided by a man who worked with PMI and knew what they look for. if you are taking, or have taken a course, ask the instructor for help. It's not as difficult as it seems.

My recoomendation is following which @Rami stated above and just in case you still have doubts contact PMI´s Cutomer Care. Just to comment overlaping counts like one project. I meat if you worked in two simultaneous project it counts like one.

Hannah,
I would do as Jon says, but if you are full time as a PM, use 2000 hrs/year but multiply by 0.8 because about 80% (1600) is about as much as people can spend assigned when dedicated to their project(s). The other time is the administrative stuff like team meetings, performance reviews with your manager, etc. That's a pretty standard efficiency factor.

If you have a couple big projects and some smaller ones, I generally assume about 40 to 60% of my time is on the big projects, with the rest divided between the small ones. How you divide the time up between phases is pretty arbitrary. Sometimes you can plan them well and they're easy to manage. Sometimes problems come up and you spend all your time in the execution or closure phases.

You can divide it up with various proportions like front loaded, level loaded, etc. but getting more precise than that is a waste of time. Nobody is going to audit your actual charging.

I think from my research that this is not true. the projects can be claimed separately but the months cannot be counted separately. Ex. I cant claim more hours in the month but I can claim for hours on all the projects I spent that month even if they run simultaneously. Its easy not to do such because the application will only count the months once thankfully so I dont have to worry about only listing them once. But it does let you claim the hours.

Thanks. That's very helpful. I did the percentage tricks you explained and that helped a lot to compare those to hours available per month. I did notice a few areas where I seemed to have over estimated just because you cant accurately explain through percentages when you're working on a long term project with smaller projects and fluctuating priorities so I was able to more accurately portray the project hours for that one project by splitting it into two phases over different time periods, design and implementation since they happened in two project cycles..