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Bruges: spending by policy area · 2025

Schools

Nursery and primary schools, canteens, after-school care. Teachers are paid by the State.

€9.4M

29% of 2025 spending · €454 per resident

€9.3M in 2024

Breakdown of this item’s spending

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  • Nursery schools54 %€5M
    • Permanent staff salaries€1.6M
    • Contract staff salaries€1M
    • Pension contributions€623k
    • Social security contributions€617k
    • Permanent staff bonuses and allowances€311k
    • Contract staff bonuses and allowances€213k
    • Contributions to the local government training and management bodies€62k
    • Transport levy€56k
    • Other lines€146k
    • Works and equipment€349k
  • School boarding and catering20 %€1.9M
    • Permanent staff salaries€607k
    • Purchases of services (other than land for development)€327k
    • Pension contributions€224k
    • Social security contributions€144k
    • Contract staff salaries€142k
    • Permanent staff bonuses and allowances€114k
    • Electricity€75k
    • Service contracts€41k
    • Other lines€202k
    • Works and equipment€42k
  • School sport12 %€1.1M
    • Contract staff salaries€338k
    • Permanent staff salaries€181k
    • Social security contributions€175k
    • Contract staff bonuses and allowances€142k
    • Pension contributions€87k
    • Permanent staff bonuses and allowances€57k
    • Transport of people outside the authority€29k
    • Unemployment insurance contributions€19k
    • Other lines€56k
  • Combined classes8 %€724k
    • Electricity€73k
    • Transport of people outside the authority€42k
    • District heating€31k
    • Water and wastewater€25k
    • Maintenance€24k
    • Public events and ceremonies€11k
    • Clothing and workwear€3k
    • Freight and public transport — miscellaneous€2k
    • Other lines€5k
    • Works and equipment€506k
  • Primary schools7 %€610k
    • Permanent staff salaries€281k
    • Pension contributions€93k
    • Permanent staff bonuses and allowances€59k
    • Social security contributions€58k
    • School supplies€33k
    • Contract staff salaries€26k
    • Other miscellaneous costs€20k
    • Contract staff bonuses and allowances€10k
    • Other lines€27k
  • School field trips< 1 %€14k

Largest works since 2023

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Who won this item’s contracts since 2023

Compared with towns of the same size

37.7% of the town’s running costs goes to this item. Towns of the same size: 17.9%.

A gap this large often comes from how the town files its spending across items, or from what its intercommunal body runs, more than from its choices. Compare with care.

Source: the town’s 2025 accounts (DGFiP), by public policy. Amounts paid in the year. Works and companies: published contracts, amounts at signature. See the source

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