Salaries, wages and benefits: 5-year growth (nominal)
Compound annual growth in finance.expenses.salaries over approximately 5 years, in nominal dollars.
total · 2024
- Highlands East10.5% a year
- Dysart et al10.1% a year
- Algonquin Highlands7.7% a year
- Minden Hills5.4% a year
1.9× between the largest and the smallest.
What these figures carry
- Nominal. Read alongside the constant-dollar version: Ontario CPI rose about 14% in the three years to 2024 alone.
Dysart et al
- Measured 2019 to 2024, a span of 5 years.
Minden Hills
- Measured 2018 to 2023, a span of 5 years.
Highlands East
- Measured 2019 to 2024, a span of 5 years.
- One year carries most of this: 51% of the whole change happened between 2019 and 2020. A compound rate spreads a step evenly across the span, so the line reads as steady growth where the filing shows a level shift. That is as often a change in what the municipality books to the line as a change in what it spends.
Algonquin Highlands
- Measured 2019 to 2024, a span of 5 years.
Which way is better
Contested. Spending is thrift or neglect depending on what you think a municipality is for. A low figure may be efficiency or a deferred road that costs a later council more. Nothing on this page is ranked, and the bars are ordered by size rather than by merit.
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