The three pie chart below show the total school spending in UK in three periods.

The three diagrams depict how the school expenses are distributed in the UK in 1981, 1991 and 2001.

Overall

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, teachers’ earnings represented the largest rate of spending in each year.

By contrast

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, the smallest proportion is about insurance.

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, spending on furniture had medium percentages. In 1981, teachers' payroll was 40% of the whole expenses of the school in the UK , rising to 50% in 1991 before decreasing to 45% in 2001.

In contrast

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, 28% spent on other workers' income in 1981, after it declined to 22% in 1991 and to 15% in 2001.

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, we can see that practically 75% of the total money laid out is spent on salaries. Meanwhile, in goods and equipment and in resources, the school paid out less money.

For example

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, in 1981, 15% of the money was laid out in both of them , but it decreased in 1991 for furniture and equipment to 5%

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the resources dropped to 20%.

However

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, in 2001, it was the opposite 23% paid out in equipment , and only 9% in books. As well, insurance stayed stable and increased to 8% in 2001.