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What Delta's councils raise and pay in salaries

What each council raised itself in 2023, from rates, fees and permits, beside what it paid its staff — two figures from the Auditor-General's report, shown side by side.

₦975.8m raised by the councils themselves in 2023 Read from a document
46.0× as much, ₦44.86bn, paid to 25,059 staff as the councils raised Our calculation

For every ₦1 a council raises, it pays in salaries

Highest ratio first. Each council opens its own page.

  1. Okpe ₦314
  2. Udu ₦241
  3. Patani ₦209
  4. Bomadi ₦138
  5. Warri North ₦115
  6. Ika South ₦95
  7. Aniocha North ₦90
  8. Isoko North ₦70
  9. Ethiope East ₦69
  10. Isoko South ₦65
  11. Ughelli South ₦62
  12. Ika North East ₦60
  13. Aniocha South ₦59
  14. Ethiope West ₦57
  15. Ukwuani ₦52
  16. Burutu ₦40
  17. Warri South West ₦39
  18. Ndokwa West ₦38
  19. Ndokwa East ₦35
  20. Sapele ₦32
  21. Ughelli North ₦31
  22. Oshimili North ₦29
  23. Uvwie ₦23
  24. Warri South ₦19
  25. Oshimili South ₦18

Salaries against own revenue, both from the Auditor-General's 2023 report. Our calculation

Show as a table
CouncilRaised 2023Salaries StaffPer ₦1 raised
Okpe ₦5.9m₦1.85bn 1,203₦313.8
Udu ₦9.1m₦2.18bn 1,084₦240.7
Patani ₦6.1m₦1.29bn 821₦209.4
Bomadi ₦8.8m₦1.21bn 920₦137.8
Warri North ₦11.9m₦1.36bn 790₦114.8
Ika South ₦18.7m₦1.77bn 1,027₦94.8
Aniocha North ₦18.6m₦1.67bn 894₦89.9
Isoko North ₦22.9m₦1.60bn 750₦70.0
Ethiope East ₦35.9m₦2.48bn 1,426₦69.1
Isoko South ₦36.7m₦2.38bn 1,612₦65.0
Ughelli South ₦39.4m₦2.43bn 1,233₦61.6
Ika North East ₦29.4m₦1.76bn 1,153₦59.9
Aniocha South ₦21.9m₦1.29bn 944₦59.0
Ethiope West ₦40.7m₦2.34bn 1,372₦57.4
Ukwuani ₦28.0m₦1.44bn 699₦51.6
Burutu ₦37.8m₦1.52bn 1,119₦40.2
Warri South West ₦38.4m₦1.51bn 692₦39.4
Ndokwa West ₦45.1m₦1.71bn 838₦37.8
Ndokwa East ₦45.6m₦1.58bn 985₦34.7
Sapele ₦54.6m₦1.76bn 936₦32.1
Ughelli North ₦85.7m₦2.69bn 1,348₦31.4
Oshimili North ₦47.9m₦1.39bn 719₦29.0
Uvwie ₦79.1m₦1.82bn 908₦23.1
Warri South ₦110.9m₦2.09bn 754₦18.9
Oshimili South ₦96.6m₦1.71bn 832₦17.7

Raised, salaries and staff as the report prints them. Read from a document What is paid per ₦1 raised is our arithmetic. Our calculation

12 of 24 raise less than they did in 2019

Own revenue, 2019 to 2023, in naira of the day, each year as the report prints it. Read from a document The count, and the change under each line, are our arithmetic. Our calculation

Read this the right way Internally generated revenue is what a council raises itself. It is not its income: the large majority of council funding is the federation allocation, which this report does not break down by council. So this is not a claim that LGAs overspend. It is the size of the gap between what a council raises locally and what it is committed to paying, which shapes how independent it can be.
In naira of the day None of these figures is adjusted for inflation, because no price index for Delta State is published. A flat line is a fall in what the money buys, and these pages cannot say by how much.

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