Kourou
Salaires et charges de personnel
In 2025, Kourou spent 27.9 M€ on this. That is 63% of its operations.
Against towns of the same size
More than elsewhere. Kourou devotes 62.9% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 20,000 to 50,000 inhabitants usually devote 55.1%.
In euros per inhabitant: €1,121, against €810 usually (+38 %).
Which public policies does it go to?
Which accounts?
Basic pay9.6 M€
Other allowances4.7 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay3.9 M€
Pension fund contributions3.7 M€
Social security agency contributions3.1 M€
Bonuses and other allowances911 k€
Basic pay841 k€
Other miscellaneous social charges486 k€
Unemployment insurance contributions225 k€
Family supplement and residence allowance122 k€
New indexed bonus89 k€
Occupational health and pharmacy71 k€
Other types of spending114 k€
Towns of the same size, around it by share of budget
2025 operating expenditure, excluding transfers to the inter-municipal body. Source: DGFiP — balances comptables, présentation croisée nature-fonction. The comparison is first on the share of the operating budget — the reading that does not depend on how wealthy the town is — then on euros per inhabitant, against the median of towns in the same DGFiP population band. Transfers to the inter-municipal body are excluded on both sides.