Salaries, wages and benefits: 5-year growth (constant dollars)
Compound annual growth in finance.expenses.salaries over approximately 5 years, in constant 2024 dollars.
total · 2024
- Highlands East6.9% a year
- Dysart et al6.5% a year
- Algonquin Highlands4.2% a year
- Minden Hills2.1% a year
3.3× between the largest and the smallest.
What these figures carry
- Deflated by Ontario all-items annual average CPI to constant 2024 dollars. CPI measures consumer prices, not municipal input costs; construction and fuel have moved differently.
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: 81% 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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