The MAGIC Salary Analysis Management System provides several programs that work together to provide accurate projected salary and benefit costs through the use of modeling. This information can be used as the basis for developing a projected budget for a new fiscal year or developing scenarios for salary negotiations for a particular fiscal year.

The SAMS system provides the ability to:

• Copy the actual salary, health and welfare benefits, retirement and mandatory information from the MAGIC (Position Control) System and allow the user to apply projected salary increases or decreases and distribute the cost by account.
  
• SAMS Budget Models can be set up by combining any of the salary schedule models, health and welfare plan and package models and actual or projected mandatory rates that will be applied to the baseline MAGIC information to create various scenarios.
  
• Once a particular SAMS budget model is refined, it can then be transferred to Budget Development where it will be distributed by account.