As Fort Benning cuts 250 civilian jobs to reduce its fiscal 2012 budget, officials have revised the number of employees now working on post from 2,300 to 4,100.

Gary Jones, director of public affairs for the Maneuver Center of Excellence, said the revised total was learned after the staff took a closer look at term employees, temporary and permanent staffers on the installation. The revised total reduces the impact of cuts from 11 percent to about 6 percent at Fort Benning as the Army trims 8,700 civilian positions nationwide.

“That is the best number we can come up with,” Jones said of the higher number of staffers.

When the cuts were announced Friday, officials said about 200 jobs already have been lost with term and temporary employees, leaving about 50 employees to cut by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.

While no permanent employees have been lost, officials hope reductions will come through early retirement, voluntary separation and command-wide hiring freezes. The cuts will save taxpayers $7.6 million a year.

The 50 remaining positions include people who work on the installation management side, the daily operation of the post.

Jones said it’s difficult to get an accurate estimate of post employees because they are now spread across the installation in the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, Installation Management Command, Forces Command, Materiel Command and the Medical Command but none report to each other.

“Before the Installation Management Command was created, we had one agency on post and that agency got all the information and it was easy to get all that information,” Jones aid. “It doesn’t happen that way anymore.”

The higher number of employees is closer to the correct total.

“I’m confident that it is about as accurate as they can get,” Jones said.