Marseille

Salaires et charges de personnel

In 2024, Marseille spent 640.4 M€ on this. That is 47% of its operations.

Against towns of the same size

−2.8 pt Marseille devotes 46.6% of its operating budget to this; the median for towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over is 49.3%.

Ranked 27 of 40 by share of budget.In euros per inhabitant: €728, against €725 for the median (+1 %).

Which public policies does it go to?

42 %General administration268.4 M€28 %Education and training178.7 M€12 %Health and social action78.0 M€7 %Security and public health47.8 M€6 %Culture, youth and sports39.1 M€3 %Regional planning and housing16.4 M€1 %Environment9.5 M€0 %Economic action2.2 M€0 %Transport328 k€

Which accounts?

Basic pay247.3 M€
Pension fund contributions87.7 M€
Other allowances87.2 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay82.1 M€
Social security agency contributions65.9 M€
Other staff costs — other27.2 M€
Bonuses and other allowances20.6 M€
Family supplement and residence allowance10.3 M€
New indexed bonus4.1 M€
Paid to the unemployment insurance fund3.8 M€
Apprentice pay2.0 M€
Occupational health and pharmacy1.2 M€
Other types of spending1.1 M€

Towns of the same size, around it by share of budget

24Montpellier47.3% of budget25Mulhouse47.2% of budget26Nîmes46.9% of budget28Saint-Étienne45.9% of budget29Dijon45.8% of budget30Orléans45.7% of budget

2024 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.

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