The pie charts illustrate the change of school spending in five different categories between 1981 and 2001. Overall, teachers’ salaries remained the largest area of spending throughout the twenty years period. While the salaries of other workers and resources displayed a downward trend, other categories showed the opposite.
Looking in more details, two fifths of school funding went to teachers’ salaries in the year of 1981, which increased considerably to 50% in 1991 before a slight dip to 45% by 2001. However, the second largest category at the beginning, other workers’ salaries dropped constantly by half to as low as 15%. By the end of the period, three times as much was spent on teachers’ salaries compared to other workers’ salaries.
In contrast, the proportion spent on furniture and equipment climbed despite the fluctuation to the second position at 23%. Book resources, on the other hand, dropped moderately from 15% to 9%, which was comparable to the increasing spending sector of insurance (8%) by 2001.
