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The Newfoundland and Labrador government spent

$10.6 billion1Source 1

in 2024-25. That is $19,529 for every person in the province2Source 2 , or what 164,029 people earning the median full-time wage make in a year3Source 3 .

Budget, deficit and debt
Budgeted
$11.0 billion4Source 4 in the spring Estimates
Spent
$10.6 billion5Source 5 by departments
Under budget
$368 million3.3% less than budgeted
Deficit
$297 million6Source 6 budget forecast: $152 million
Net debt
$18.4 billion7Source 7 $33,799 a person8Source 8

Budget against actual, department by department

Your receipt

Enter employment income to estimate provincial income tax and illustrate its share of spending, department by department.

The receipt estimates 2025 Newfoundland and Labrador income tax11Source 11 , then spreads it the way the province spread all its spending in 2024-25. Health got 43% of every dollar spent, so 43% of the estimated tax is shown there.

Personal income tax brought in 19% of provincial revenue in 202410Source 10 ; sales taxes, federal transfers and resource revenue pay most of the rest. The receipt illustrates spending shares; it does not trace an individual’s tax payments. How the receipt works.

Illustration for a single employee with one job. Pension and self-employment income are outside its scope; age, pension and other credits are not included.

Receipt, 2024-25

Employment income $64,896 · estimated provincial income tax $5,437.94 · 8.4% of income

Illustration for a single employee with one job. Pension and self-employment income are outside its scope; age, pension and other credits are not included. The amounts below illustrate spending shares, not where a person’s tax was paid.

Health and Community Services$2,355.85
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Transportation and Infrastructure$687.03
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Consolidated Fund Services$674.04
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Education$664.65
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Children, Seniors and Social Development$237.38
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Justice and Public Safety$196.81
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Executive Council$133.33
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13 more departments$488.86
Immigration, Population Growth and Skills$105.73
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Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation$82.62
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Industry, Energy and Technology$70.59
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Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation$52.95
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Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture$46.46
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Environment and Climate Change$36.39
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Municipal and Provincial Affairs$31.78
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Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador$19.08
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Legislature$15.97
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Finance$11.55
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Labrador Affairs$8.53
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Public Service Commission$6.00
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Public Procurement Agency$1.20
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Estimated provincial income tax$5,437.94

What a working life buys

Someone earning the median full-time wage here, $64,896 a year, makes about $2.6 million over a 40-year career. In 2024-25 the province spent that much every 2 hours and 8 minutes.

Provincial spending for every resident, 2024‑25
$19,529
Provincial spending for every household9Source 9
$47,681
Provincial spending every hour, around the clock, all year
$1.2 million
A 40-year career at the median wage
$2.6 million

$22,000,000

Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited

Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro awarded this without competition (only one source available): CBPP power purchase agreement. It would take someone on the median wage 339 years to earn. p. 2

8.5 times a 40-year career at the median wage

$268,143

MHA constituency office rent, 2024-25

Rent for constituency offices, the 20 members whose reports show office rent that year, added together. It would take someone on the median wage 4.1 years to earn. p. 1

10% of a 40-year career at the median wage

$222,834

Ministers' travel and expense claims, 2025-12 to 2026-05

153 claims by 17 ministers in one six-month reporting period, car allowances not included. It would take someone on the median wage 3.4 years to earn. source

8.6% of a 40-year career at the median wage

$116,500

The middle registered nurse on the over-$100,000 list, 2025

The middle of the 2,260 registered nurses paid over $100,000 in 2025, overtime included, as published by NL Health Services. It would take someone on the median wage 93 weeks to earn. source

4.5% of a 40-year career at the median wage

Compare with $1 billion

Priorities

Where the provincial dollar went in 2024-25, set against what the budget said it would cost.

  • Spent (actual)
  • Budgeted (original estimate)

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DepartmentSpent against budgetSpentBudgetedPer person
Health and Community Services$4.6 billion$4.5 billion$8,460
Transportation and Infrastructure$1.3 billion$1.4 billion$2,467
Consolidated Fund Services$1.3 billion$1.4 billion$2,421
Education$1.3 billion$1.3 billion$2,387
Children, Seniors and Social Development$465 million$436 million$852
Justice and Public Safety$385 million$367 million$707
Executive Council$261 million$301 million$479
Immigration, Population Growth and Skills$207 million$221 million$380
12 more departments$750 million$1.0 billion$1,376
All 20 departments$10.6 billion$11.0 billion$19,529

Every department and program, 2019-20 to 2024-25 · Budget against actual, the deficit and net debt

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The largest 2025 provincial contract awarded without competition was a $22 million power purchase agreement between Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro and Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited, signed November 3, 2025. It was a sole-source award, meaning the government said only one supplier was reasonably available, and it ran for five months. Automated scripts pulled these figures from public records and nobody has independently vetted them, so check the source before relying on it.

Contract award report, November 16 to 30, 2025, page 3 · The record on this site

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Reported record values by source

145,362 line items from provincial and federal records: contract awards (including sole-source), grants, MHA and minister expense claims and salaries over $100,000 (the sunshine list).

Source summaries, all years

Provincial awards, expense claims and pay
$5.8 billion
Federal contract values, NL-address selection, all years
$2.6 billion
Federal agreement values, reported recipient province NL (conflicts labelled), all years
$8.7 billion

Federal records are selected by reported supplier or recipient addresses, including labelled conflicts. Addresses do not establish where work, benefits or spending occurred; no NL share is inferred. These are whole reported commitments, not amounts paid. Sources and agreements can overlap and cover different years: do not add them as a spending total. Major transfers are separate context on the federal page. Provincial records include awards, expense claims and pay. What each source covers.

Largest reported values within each source

Each source is ranked separately across all years. Agreements and sources can overlap: these values are not total receipts or spending in NL. Federal address selection does not locate the work or benefit; read the location evidence on each record.

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RecipientOn record
INMARSAT SOLUTIONS (CANADA) INC./federal contracts; all years; reported values, not receipts; address selection does not locate work or benefit$311 million
ROGERS CABLE COMMUNICATIONS INC.federal contracts; all years; reported values, not receipts; address selection does not locate work or benefit$270 million
SC2.0 Stepped Care Solutions Incfederal contracts; all years; reported values, not receipts; address selection does not locate work or benefit$255 million
St. John's Dockyardfederal contracts; all years; reported values, not receipts; address selection does not locate work or benefit$229 million
BELL ALIANT REGIONALfederal contracts; all years; reported values, not receipts; address selection does not locate work or benefit$159 million
Government of Newfoundland and Labradorfederal grants; all years; reported values, not receipts; address selection does not locate work or benefit$1.6 billion
Nunatsiavut Governmentfederal grants; all years; reported values, not receipts; address selection does not locate work or benefit$1.2 billion
Memorial University of Newfoundlandfederal grants; all years; reported values, not receipts; address selection does not locate work or benefit$365 million
Miawpukek Bandfederal grants; all years; reported values, not receipts; address selection does not locate work or benefit$322 million
Mushuau Innu First Nationfederal grants; all years; reported values, not receipts; address selection does not locate work or benefit$305 million
Microsoft Canada Inc.provincial awards; all years; reported values, not receipts$141 million
Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limitedprovincial awards; all years; reported values, not receipts$137 million
Canadian Health Labsprovincial awards; all years; reported values, not receipts$71.3 million
Right Coast Wind Corp.provincial awards; all years; reported values, not receipts$46 million
Labrador Marine Inc.provincial awards; all years; reported values, not receipts$32.3 million

Contract values and grant agreement values as reported, which can span several years; not money paid in one year. Federal major transfers to the provincial government (health, social) are not in this list; they are on the federal page.

Patterns people ask about

Sole-source contracts and other awards without competition, contracts that grew, purchases just under a limit, year-end rushes, overtime bigger than salary. Each is counted from the records, with its method written down.

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All 14 patterns and how each is worked out

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Line items loaded
145,362
Department totals matched to the printed statement
174 of 175
Minister and MHA reports adding up to their printed totals
all
Links on government pages that lead nowhere
29
Provincial awards reported more than 90 days late
397
Award dates printed that cannot be right
26

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Notes

  1. Report on the Program Expenditures and Revenues of the Consolidated Revenue Fund 2024-25, Statement of Expenditure and Related Revenue by Department (current and capital accounts), gross expenditure, all departments, PDF pages 12 and 13. Open the source
  2. Statistics Canada table 17-10-0009-01, population of Newfoundland and Labrador on July 1, 2024: 545,080. Open the source
  3. Statistics Canada table 14-10-0064-01 (vector v2200133), median weekly wage of full-time employees in Newfoundland and Labrador, 2025: $1,248.00, times 52 weeks = $64,896 a year. Open the source
  4. Budget, Statements and Schedules 2024-25, Summary of Cash Requirements: gross expenditure, current account $10,057,872,000 and capital account $955,464,000. Open the source
  5. Report on the Program Expenditures and Revenues of the Consolidated Revenue Fund 2024-25, Statement of Budgetary Contribution: gross expenditure, current account $9,847,235,000 and capital account $797,617,000 (Actuals), against $10,057,872,000 and $955,464,000 (Original Estimates). Open the source
  6. Public Accounts, Consolidated Summary Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025, Consolidated Statement of Operations: annual deficit $296,637,000 (Actuals), $151,949,000 (Original Budget). Open the source
  7. Public Accounts, Consolidated Summary Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025, Consolidated Statement of Financial Position: net debt $18,435,914,000. Open the source
  8. Public Accounts, Consolidated Summary Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025, financial statement discussion and analysis: net debt per capita $33,799. Open the source
  9. Statistics Canada table 98-10-0002-01, private households in Newfoundland and Labrador, 2021 Census: 223,253. Open the source
  10. Statistics Canada table 36-10-0450-01, Newfoundland and Labrador provincial government, 2024: income taxes from households $2.0 billion (vector v107647088) of total revenue $10.2 billion (vector v107647086). Open the source
  11. Canada Revenue Agency, tax rates and income brackets used on the 2025 tax return, Newfoundland and Labrador; basic personal amount and low-income tax reduction from form NL428 (2025). The receipt applies the 2025 brackets, the basic personal amount, CPP and EI credits and the low-income reduction; other credits are not applied. Open the source

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