BDLive reports that the employee-related costs of municipalities grew by 43.9% between 2011 and 2015, or from R50bn in 2011 to R73bn in 2015. This was revealed in the Statistics SA financial census of municipalities in Pretoria on Wednesday.
Employee-related costs contributed to just over a quarter of municipalities’ total operating expenditure in the financial year ended in June 2015. Explaining the increase in employee-related costs, Stats SA’s director for local government institutions, Malibongwe Mhemhe, said: “The number of employees has increased and the salaries have increased.” In urban and metro municipalities, the hiring of interns over and above the normal staff complement was an additional contributor to employee costs, while work being done in rural municipalities required the hiring of more manual labour.
- Read this report by Khulekani Magubane in full at BDLive
- See too, Salaries take up bulk of municipal costs, at Fin24
- And also, Staff pay makes up bulk of local council budgets, at TimesLive
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