This page will show you how to review the elements of your support goal. Your support goal is a combination of your salary, ministry expenses, administrative fees, attrition buffer, taxes, and your 403(b)(9).
How to Create a NEW Support Goal (for the first time)
Log into toolbox.Reliant.org using your Reliant email and password used to log into other Reliant sites.
Select Support Goals from the menu (bottom left)
Click the Create Your First Goal button on the Support Goals page. (or the Create button if you have made a goal previously)
Month Effective
- Please select the month that you wish for this support goal to take effect.
Salary
- First, select how many hours you intend to work and input that in the first box.
- (If you are changing hours, please submit a change form at this time.)
- Next, select the annual salary you want to approve (you can see your max approval to the right)
- Note: You can accept a lower salary than offered, but not one that is higher
- If you have a FICA bonus, your offered salary has been cleaned up in Toolbox and works slightly differently.
- Toolbox will add your FICA bonus to your salary in your final goal.
- In the past, in Staffnet, we would offer you a salary that had salary and FICA combined, and Staffnet would subtract out FICA.
- Now we offer you a salary before the FICA bonus, and we add the bonus on top of that, which is more logical and mirrors how FICA should work.
- Please reach out to your liaison if you run into questions.
- First, select how many hours you intend to work and input that in the first box.
Subsidies
- Let us know the MONTHLY amount that your sponsor church is committing
- This will be assessed at a lower admin fee
- Please let us know if you are getting a monthly subsidy from Reliant
- If you are unsure, please enter 0 for now and reach out to your team liaison
- If you know you are not, please enter 0
- Let us know the MONTHLY amount that your sponsor church is committing
Benefits
- Select your medical insurance option
- NOTE: This will come out of the MTD account you're responsible for each month, NOT deducted from your monthly paycheck.
- If none is needed, please select no medical insurance
- NOTE: you will need to fill out a waiver form to show proof of other insurance coverage
- Select your dental coverage
- NOTE: This will come out of the MTD account you're responsible for each month, NOT deducted from your monthly paycheck.
- Select your Retirement Fund Monthy Contribution. This is the amount you plan to have subtracted from your paycheck.
- To the right, you will see your contribution max. This is the maximum amount Reliant will match from the account you are responsible for based on 5% of your eligible wages.
- NOTE: This employer contribution match will added to your support goal, as it will come from the MTD account you're responsible for, NOT from Reliant Central Budget
- NOTE: Changing the contribution amount on the support goal does not change how much Reliant withholds from your paycheck. Since Reliant's 403(b)(9) plan is managed by GuideStone go to the GuideStone site to update any changes to your 403(b)(9) contributions. (See Changes to Contributions for additional help.)
- NOTE: See 403(b) Retirement Plan for additional information
- To the right, you will see your contribution max. This is the maximum amount Reliant will match from the account you are responsible for based on 5% of your eligible wages.
- Select your medical insurance option
Expenses
- Select the amount you want as a ministry expense bonus to show up in your paycheck.
- Select the amount for your mobile phone to be paid out in your paycheck
- Make an estimate on how much you plan to reimburse each month
- NOTE: This is an estimate to ensure you are raising the amount of funds needed to cover this number each month
Things to know before submitting a fixed goal:
- Fixed goals are built to calculate expenses for a resident/intern with predetermined start and end dates (e.g. 24 months).
- Fixed goals are made up of monthly and one-time costs, which depend on program parameters set by the local program supervisor.
- If an item listed below is not available in the Toolbox Support Goal form, it is not an offered or required item for your program.
Start with the Term Summary
With your Support Goal form pulled up in Toolbox, we encourage you to start by reviewing the total summary first. You may find required fees listed here that are not part of the calculator (because they are required).
You can continue to check on the Goal Summary as you make changes to the calculator.
Workers are required to raise 100% of the cost of employment; learn about required administrative, tax, and insurance costs here.
We encourage you to start by reviewing the goal summary. You will find required costs listed here that are not part of the calculator (because they are required). Some of these are Reliant-driven, while some may be part of your local program parameters.
Expand each section by clicking on the section headers...
Select the month in which the submitted information should take effect.
Must be a future month within processing deadlines. A red box will outline this field if the input is invalid.
- Select your offered hours from the dropdown.
- Input the annual (gross) salary you are accepting (must be within the maximum approved shown to the right).
- Note: You may accept a lower salary than offered, but not one that is higher. Supervisor approval may be required to approve a salary that is different from what was offered.
Learn more about Reliant's benefits in the Field Manual: Insurance | Retirement
- Select your intended medical insurance coverage
- NOTE: This will come out of the MTD account you're responsible for each month; it is NOT deducted from your monthly paycheck.
- If you select "No medical insurance," you will be asked to show proof of alternate coverage when submitting your waiver.
- Select your intended dental insurance coverage
- NOTE: This will come out of the MTD account you're responsible for account each month; it is NOT deducted from your monthly paycheck.
This Field Manual page outlines eligibility and enrollment expectations.
Here’s how the employee (EE) and employer (ER) contributions affect your support goal:
- Eligibility is effective immediately upon hire.
- Reliant matches up to 5% of the employee’s gross pay.
- Reliant auto-enrolls employees at $50/pay period, which the employee can change through their GuideStone portal upon hire.
- GuideStone account instructions come from Payroll at the end of the month of hire. To avoid the $50 auto-enrollment, employees must engage with that email promptly.
- Employee (EE) contributions are funds contributed from your paycheck. The EE amount is excluded from support goals since it comes off your wages (not an additional expense from the MTD fund you’re assigned).
- Employer (ER) contributions are expensed from the MTD account the worker is responsible for and are dependent on the employee contribution amount. This means the employer contribution must be accounted for in your support goal (see Order of Pay for more details).
Employee Contributions
Your goal selection DOES NOT affect the actual contribution managed via GuideStone. You will need to access your GuideStone retirement account to make changes.
Only Submit New Goals with Finalized Information
Please only hit the "Submit" button at the bottom of the Support Goal Calculator if your selections are approved if needed and final to the best of your knowledge. Hitting "Submit" may prompt Reliant Central to take action on any changes (e.g. a salary change).
Once you have submitted your goal and it has been approved, you can see it in detail if you click on the Support Goal menu on your toolbox dashboard. This image has had Monthly Costs and Fees expanded so you may have to do the same at first.
