The three pie charts provide the differences in anonymous UK school yearly spending in 1981, 1991 and 2001. A total of 5 spendings categories each year were teachers’ salaries, other workers’ salaries, furniture and equipment, resources, and lastly, insurance. In three different years with 10 years apart, the top one spending was consistent, which was teachers’ salaries. In contrast, the budget on insurance was always the lowest.
Yearly spending on school workers wages had a difference. Overall, the teachers salaries budget had an increasing number. On the other hand, other workers’ wages had a decrease from 28% in 1981, down to 22% in 1991, and had the lowest in 2001, which was 15%. Although teachers salaries also had ups and downs from 40% in 1981 down to 50% a decade later, and going up to 45% in 2001, this follows furniture and equipment category and resources category that both had fluctuating budget percentages across the year, from 15% in 1981, went up to 20% ten years later, then had to cut to 9% in 2001. Lastly, insurance had the smallest spending yet it always increased with 2%, 3% and 8% respectively.
Annual budgets in anonymous UK school from two decades (1981, 1991 and 2001) already cover all possible improvements a school can have, the school always looks for improvements for its resources and finds a way without erasing a single category. Nonetheless, school should always provide a way to improve resources, for example books, no matter how hard the budgeting process was.