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Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur · 1,128,455 residents · Chair: Charles Ange Ginesy

Alpes-Maritimes

€1.5 billion spent in 2025.

€1,300 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,203

What Alpes-Maritimes spends, by policy

  • Health and social care47%€686.1M
  • Administration and shared services8%€114.7M
  • Loans: repayments and interest8%€110.3M
  • Roads and transport7%€103M
  • Fire, rescue and safety7%€101.6M
  • Middle schools and education7%€97.3M
  • Environment5%€68.5M
  • Culture, sport and youth4%€61.6M
  • Town planning and housing3%€42.8M
  • Economy and trade1%€15.7M
The 2 other items (4%)
  • Passed on to other bodies4%€64.2M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€648k

Source: 2025 accounts of Alpes-Maritimes (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €1.47B, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people37%€538.5M

    Minimum income, disability, elderly care, child welfare, accommodation.

  • Staff16%€229M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors13%€188.6M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions11%€155.2M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates9%€125.6M
  • Banks and lenders8%€110.3M
  • Compulsory contributions7%€106.4M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Other1%€12.8M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Alpes-Maritimes (DGFiP).

Contracts state a maximum amount for their whole term, often several years. That amount differs from what was paid. Purchases, services and works paid to companies by the département in 2025: €188.6M (its accounts).

190 contracts signed in 2025 · €114.5M before tax

What the département paid in 2025 for these kinds of purchase, from its accounts

  • Electricity, gas and heatingall suppliers together · contract in the list: Électricité de Francepaid €5.3M

The accounts say how much was paid for each kind of purchase, not to which company. A purchase paid by another public body (joint order, shared service) is not in them.

Why this total differs from the €188.6M of purchases, services and works paid to companies

These are the amounts of the contracts signed in the year, over their whole length, not what was paid. The money paid in a year also goes to older contracts and to purchases too small to be published (under €40,000 excl. VAT). For a framework agreement, the amount is a ceiling.

Investment and works

€107.6M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €95 per resident. Départements of the same size: €93.

Click a building site to see the contract

Largest works contracted since 2023, among published contracts. Amounts planned at signature, often spread over several years.

On top of that, €119.5M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Alpes-Maritimes (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €1.38B · borrowing: €89M · spending: €1.47B.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)76%€1.13B
  • State and other contributions12%€174.1M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…3%€45.4M
  • Users and rents< 1%€4.8M
  • Other receipts2%€33M
  • Borrowing6%€89M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€722 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €568

4.3 years of savings to repay it

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Départements of the same size”: median of the 29 départements of 777,000 to 2.7 million residents.

The levels above Alpes-Maritimes

Spending per resident in 2025, and what each level pays for.

  • DépartementAlpes-MaritimesMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,300
  • RegionProvence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €558

Each row: the body’s own spending per resident, the figure at the top of its page (DGFiP). Not to be added up: a grant from one level is spent by another.

Who is part of Alpes-Maritimes

Understanding these figures

Who does what

The département pays for middle schools, social help (minimum income, elderly care, disability, child welfare), départemental roads, and funds the fire and rescue service.

Official table of responsibilities (July 2025)

Why the levels are not added up

The same euro can appear twice: once when a region or a département pays a grant, again when the town spends it. Each page shows its own body’s spending.

Where these figures come from

Spending: the accounts of the main budget published by the DGFiP, by public policy. Revenue, debt and taxes: OFGL. Contracts: published contract data (DECP), amounts planned at signing.

Elected officials and staff of Alpes-Maritimes: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Alpes-Maritimes · Sources and method

Accounts 2025 (DGFiP, OFGL). The method · See the source