Labor - Expected Execution Budget The Expected Execution Budget (EB_E) is the amount of labor that the project team plans to spend to execute a project. It is based on what has been spent to date and the amount it has forecasted to execute the remaining scope. At the beginning of a project the Expected Execution Budget is equal to the Execution Budget . But as the project is executed the Expected Execution Budget can, at any given time, be lower or higher than the Execution Budget : Higher - The team will spent more money than expected and the margin generated will be lower than the objective. Lower - The team will spent less money than expected and the margin generated will be above the objective.