NL Ledger

Newfoundland and Labrador spent

$10.6 billion1

in 2024-25. That is $19,529 for every person in the province2, or what 164,029 people earning the median full-time wage make in a year3.

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Your receipt

Put in your income and see what your provincial income tax paid for, department by department, down to real contracts.

The receipt works out your 2025 Newfoundland and Labrador income tax6, then spreads it the way the province spread all its spending in 2024-25. Health got 43% of every dollar spent, so 43% of your tax lands there.

Personal income tax brought in 19% of provincial revenue in 20245; sales taxes, federal transfers and resource revenue pay most of the rest. The receipt shows your part, not the whole bill. How the receipt works.

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Receipt, 2024-25

Income $64,896 · provincial income tax about $5,883.96 · 9.1% of income

Health and Community Services$2,549.07
What it bought
Transportation and Infrastructure$743.38
What it bought
Consolidated Fund Services$729.32
What it bought
Education$719.16
What it bought
Children, Seniors and Social Development$256.85
What it bought
Justice and Public Safety$212.95
What it bought
Executive Council$144.27
What it bought
13 more departments$528.95
Immigration, Population Growth and Skills$114.40
What it bought
Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation$89.40
What it bought
Industry, Energy and Technology$76.38
What it bought
Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation$57.30
What it bought
Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture$50.27
What it bought
Environment and Climate Change$39.38
What it bought
Municipal and Provincial Affairs$34.39
What it bought
Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador$20.65
What it bought
Legislature$17.28
What it bought
Finance$12.49
What it bought
Labrador Affairs$9.23
What it bought
Public Service Commission$6.49
What it bought
Public Procurement Agency$1.30
What it bought
Your provincial income tax$5,883.96

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.

Spent for every resident, 2024‑25
$19,529
For every household4
$47,681
Every hour, around the clock, all year
$1.2 million
A 40-year career at the median wage
$2.6 million

Fold out $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)
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 $987 million $1,376
All 20 departments$10.6 billion$11.0 billion$19,529

Every department and program, 2019-20 to 2024-25

Where it went

161,865 line items from provincial, federal and municipal records: contract awards, grants, expense claims, pay over $100,000, every payment the Town of Paradise publishes and a sample from the City of St. John's.

By level of government

Provincial awards, expense claims and pay
$5.8 billion
Federal contracts and grants to NL
$11.3 billion
Municipal payments
$139 million

Federal: contracts with suppliers that have an NL postal code, and grant and contribution agreements, whose values can span several years (major transfers are on the federal page). Provincial: contract awards since 2021, minister and MHA claims, and four years of pay over $100,000. Municipal: Paradise payments and a sample from St. John's. The sources cover different years and kinds of money, so these are not one year's spending and should not be compared as if they were. What each source covers.

Largest recipients across all three levels

RecipientOn record
Nunatsiavut Governmentfederal contracts, federal grants$1.2 billion
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador | Gouvernment de Terre-Neuve et du Labradorfederal grants$556 million
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador - Department of Health and Community Servicesfederal grants$503 million
INMARSAT SOLUTIONS (CANADA) INC./federal contracts$311 million
Mushuau Innu First Nationfederal grants$290 million
ROGERS CABLE COMMUNICATIONS INC.federal contracts$268 million
SC2.0 Stepped Care Solutions Incfederal contracts, federal grants$257 million
Miawpukek Bandfederal grants$247 million
Sheshatshiu Innu First Nationfederal grants$219 million
NEWDOCK - ST. JOHN'S DOCKYARD LTDfederal contracts$211 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 deals, 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.

The Open Contracting Partnership's guide to red flags puts it this way: a red flag is not evidence that anything wrong happened. It points at something that may be worth a closer look.

All 15 patterns and how each is worked out

Every figure has a receipt

Each number on this site links to the public file it came from, and to the page or row inside it.

Where a total is added up here, the sum is checked against the total the source prints. Where the source is wrong, broken or missing, that goes on the publisher report card rather than being quietly fixed.

Sources and report card · Corrections · Ask the data with an AI assistant

Line items loaded
161,865
Department totals matched to the printed statement
173 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
379
Award dates printed that cannot be right
26

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. Statistics Canada table 98-10-0002-01, private households in Newfoundland and Labrador, 2021 Census: 223,253. Open the source
  5. 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
  6. 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 and the basic personal amount credit only. Open the source