Where the money comes from and where it goes.
State and county government finances from the state’s own reports. Different years and measures are kept apart.
Fiscal year 2025 (July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025), audited actuals, all governmental funds (ACFR, governmental funds)
Total revenue $44.9B · total spending $44.1B (exact figures in the tables). Revenue and spending are separate measures; budgeted and audited years are separate records and are never compared as one.
| Intergovernmental revenues (chiefly federal grants) | $24,564,758,000.00 |
| Taxes | $14,305,854,000.00 |
| Tobacco settlement | $128,135,000.00 |
| Gaming | $1,001,881,000.00 |
| Use of money and property (chiefly investment earnings and royalties) | $1,457,528,000.00 |
| Licenses, permits and fees | $1,616,118,000.00 |
| Sales of commodities and services | $1,325,025,000.00 |
| Other settlements | $71,702,000.00 |
| Gifts, donations and contributions | $162,976,000.00 |
| Other | $229,441,000.00 |
| Current operations: general government | $2,859,593,000.00 |
| Current operations: culture, recreation and tourism | $117,871,000.00 |
| Current operations: transportation and development | $665,608,000.00 |
| Current operations: public safety | $1,458,629,000.00 |
| Current operations: health and welfare | $22,636,950,000.00 |
| Current operations: corrections | $916,325,000.00 |
| Current operations: youth development | $165,061,000.00 |
| Current operations: conservation and environment | $445,271,000.00 |
| Current operations: education | $1,332,652,000.00 |
| Current operations: agriculture and forestry | $183,192,000.00 |
| Current operations: economic development | $147,091,000.00 |
| Current operations: military and veterans affairs | $193,369,000.00 |
| Current operations: workforce support and training | $263,738,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): general government | $431,763,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): culture, recreation and tourism | $13,715,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): transportation and development | $83,117,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): public safety | $672,808,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): health and welfare | $215,738,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): corrections | $68,619,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): youth development | $11,139,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): conservation and environment | $1,806,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): education | $6,955,036,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): agriculture and forestry | $7,970,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): economic development | $163,095,000.00 |
| Intergovernmental (payments to other governments): workforce support and training | $14,612,000.00 |
| Capital outlay | $3,343,436,000.00 |
| Debt service: principal | $503,229,000.00 |
| Debt service: interest | $239,063,000.00 |
| Debt service: issuance costs and other charges | $8,881,000.00 |
Fiscal year 2026-27 (July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027), enacted budget, all means of financing, excluding double counts (enacted budget)
Total revenue $47.7B · total spending $47.6B (exact figures in the tables). Revenue and spending are separate measures; budgeted and audited years are separate records and are never compared as one.
| State general fund revenue (Revenue Estimating Conference forecast of May 8, 2026) | $12,512,600,000.00 |
| Undesignated state general fund cash balance | $0.00 |
| Use of the Budget Stabilization Fund | $0.00 |
| State general fund carried forward | $0.00 |
| Fees and self-generated revenue of agencies | $4,027,300,000.00 |
| Statutory dedications (money set aside by law in dedicated funds) | $7,414,400,000.00 |
| Federal funds | $23,703,100,000.00 |
| Business and infrastructure (economic development, transportation, culture and tourism, Louisiana Works, capital outlay and related) | $4,036,700,000.00 |
| Education (Department of Education, higher education, special schools) | $10,013,900,000.00 |
| Environment and natural resources (coastal, environmental quality, conservation, wildlife, agriculture) | $817,700,000.00 |
| General government (executive and elected offices, revenue, civil service, retirement, aid to local governments, judicial and legislative expense, non-appropriated requirements) | $3,925,600,000.00 |
| Human resources (Department of Health, children and family services, elderly affairs, veterans affairs) | $23,732,400,000.00 |
| Public safety (corrections, youth services, public safety services, homeland security, military affairs, attorney general) | $5,123,200,000.00 |
Parish governments, fiscal year 2022 (Census of Governments; most parishes' fiscal year is calendar year 2022)
| Acadia | $64,233,000.00 | $57,634,000.00 | $15,652,000.00 | 56,961 | $1,011.82 |
| Allen | — | — | $8,943,000.00 | 22,425 | — |
| Ascension | $222,964,000.00 | $146,852,000.00 | $66,764,000.00 | 130,638 | $1,124.11 |
| Assumption | — | — | — | 20,481 | — |
| Avoyelles | — | — | — | 38,772 | — |
| Beauregard | — | — | $9,488,000.00 | 36,600 | — |
| Bienville | — | — | — | 12,623 | — |
| Bossier | $92,374,000.00 | $60,235,000.00 | $26,036,000.00 | 129,355 | $465.66 |
| Caddo | $326,321,000.00 | $234,587,000.00 | $94,940,000.00 | 229,272 | $1,023.18 |
| Calcasieu | $424,627,000.00 | $255,394,000.00 | $59,687,000.00 | 202,821 | $1,259.21 |
| Caldwell | — | — | — | 9,506 | — |
| Cameron | $31,798,000.00 | $39,134,000.00 | $23,549,000.00 | 4,932 | $7,934.71 |
| Catahoula | $12,617,000.00 | $8,727,000.00 | $1,507,000.00 | 8,645 | $1,009.49 |
| Claiborne | — | — | — | 13,820 | — |
| Concordia | $58,796,000.00 | $50,391,000.00 | $8,843,000.00 | 18,189 | $2,770.41 |
| De Soto | $60,537,000.00 | $53,767,000.00 | $25,670,000.00 | 26,869 | $2,001.08 |
| East Baton Rouge | $1,544,023,000.00 | $1,207,314,000.00 | $254,112,000.00 | 451,837 | $2,672.01 |
| East Carroll | — | — | — | 6,972 | — |
| East Feliciana | $21,013,000.00 | $18,554,000.00 | $7,086,000.00 | 19,169 | $967.92 |
| Evangeline | — | — | — | 32,291 | — |
| Franklin | — | — | — | 19,340 | — |
| Grant | $6,228,000.00 | $3,950,000.00 | $2,106,000.00 | 22,047 | $179.16 |
| Iberia | $210,173,000.00 | $175,760,000.00 | $21,564,000.00 | 68,397 | $2,569.70 |
| Iberville | — | — | — | 29,708 | — |
| Jackson | $49,265,000.00 | $45,382,000.00 | $9,779,000.00 | 15,061 | $3,013.21 |
| Jefferson | $924,673,000.00 | $643,651,000.00 | $276,177,000.00 | 430,086 | $1,496.56 |
| Jefferson Davis | $32,661,000.00 | $18,819,000.00 | $11,087,000.00 | 32,012 | $587.87 |
| Lafayette | $713,198,000.00 | $664,803,000.00 | $131,962,000.00 | 248,406 | $2,676.28 |
| Lafourche | — | — | $18,674,000.00 | 95,738 | — |
| LaSalle | $81,696,000.00 | — | $9,010,000.00 | 14,930 | — |
| Lincoln | — | — | — | 48,050 | — |
| Livingston | $178,470,000.00 | $121,900,000.00 | $42,208,000.00 | 148,332 | $821.81 |
| Madison | $34,367,000.00 | $47,878,000.00 | $6,490,000.00 | 9,505 | $5,037.14 |
| Morehouse | — | — | $5,721,000.00 | 24,466 | — |
| Natchitoches | — | — | $19,901,000.00 | 36,724 | — |
| Orleans | $2,239,216,000.00 | $2,081,178,000.00 | $342,166,000.00 | 371,038 | $5,609.07 |
| Ouachita | — | — | $62,561,000.00 | 157,979 | — |
| Plaquemines | $95,802,000.00 | $114,889,000.00 | $20,920,000.00 | 22,659 | $5,070.35 |
| Pointe Coupee | — | — | $10,865,000.00 | 20,225 | — |
| Rapides | $108,517,000.00 | — | $47,639,000.00 | 127,018 | — |
| Red River | — | — | $11,182,000.00 | 7,483 | — |
| Richland | $112,833,000.00 | $105,463,000.00 | $4,211,000.00 | 19,819 | $5,321.31 |
| Sabine | — | — | $11,667,000.00 | 21,966 | — |
| St. Bernard | $147,144,000.00 | $172,983,000.00 | $22,214,000.00 | 44,688 | $3,870.90 |
| St. Charles | $250,407,000.00 | $229,907,000.00 | $78,802,000.00 | 51,089 | $4,500.13 |
| St. Helena | — | — | $4,608,000.00 | 10,789 | — |
| St. James | — | — | $19,042,000.00 | 19,395 | — |
| St. John the Baptist | $138,635,000.00 | $127,031,000.00 | $63,564,000.00 | 40,028 | $3,173.55 |
| St. Landry | $264,103,000.00 | $248,335,000.00 | $17,024,000.00 | 81,661 | $3,041.05 |
| St. Martin | — | — | — | 51,307 | — |
| St. Mary | — | — | — | 47,900 | — |
| St. Tammany | $411,301,000.00 | $366,774,000.00 | $164,745,000.00 | 273,650 | $1,340.30 |
| Tangipahoa | $205,870,000.00 | $194,002,000.00 | $37,192,000.00 | 136,814 | $1,418.00 |
| Tensas | — | — | $2,314,000.00 | 3,848 | — |
| Terrebonne | $591,391,000.00 | $671,110,000.00 | $48,774,000.00 | 104,798 | $6,403.84 |
| Union | $52,704,000.00 | $40,910,000.00 | $5,518,000.00 | 20,690 | $1,977.28 |
| Vermilion | — | — | — | 56,975 | — |
| Vernon | — | — | — | 46,863 | — |
| Washington | $134,495,000.00 | $69,190,000.00 | $12,010,000.00 | 45,020 | $1,536.87 |
| Webster | — | — | $2,888,000.00 | 35,636 | — |
| West Baton Rouge | — | — | $21,503,000.00 | 28,103 | — |
| West Carroll | $9,161,000.00 | $5,870,000.00 | $2,378,000.00 | 9,485 | $618.87 |
| West Feliciana | — | — | — | 15,360 | — |
| Winn | $71,229,000.00 | $68,423,000.00 | $4,405,000.00 | 13,626 | $5,021.50 |
Louisiana's 64 parishes are its counties. In most parishes the governing body is a police jury, the traditional form; parishes that adopt a home rule charter are governed instead by a parish council, often with an elected parish president. Four parishes are governed by consolidated governments that also run the main city: East Baton Rouge (with Baton Rouge), Lafayette (with the city of Lafayette), Orleans (New Orleans, whose city and parish share one boundary and one government) and Terrebonne (with Houma). The parish governing authority is only one part of parish government: the sheriff, assessor, clerk of court, coroner and district attorney are separately elected and file their own audits with the Legislative Auditor (sources: Legislative Auditor, Louisiana Governmental Audit Guide 200-1100; House of Representatives, State and Local Government primer, chapter 3A; Census Bureau, 2022 Individual State Descriptions). Revenue, spending and property tax come from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2022 Census of Governments: Finance individual unit file, the latest year that canvasses every government; they are actual results for each government's fiscal year 2022 (62 calendar year 2022; 1 fiscal year ending October 31, 2022; 1 fiscal year ending November 30, 2022). No Louisiana state agency publishes current parish revenues and spending in one comparable table: the Legislative Auditor receives every parish's audited financial report, but its spreadsheet of financial data stops at 2018 and is marked unaudited (see gaps). Each row is the government Census files for the parish: the parish governing authority, plus whatever agencies Census treats as part of it (its records include police protection, hospital and utility spending for many parishes; whether the sheriff's and other elected officers' finances are folded in was not checked, see gaps). Cities, towns, villages and school boards inside the parish are separate governments and are not included; the four consolidated governments (East Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Orleans, Terrebonne) are filed by Census as municipal governments, so their rows include city services and are not comparable with the other 60 (each carries a comparability note). Revenue = all revenue Census records for the government (taxes, charges, state and federal aid, interest and other general revenue, utility and insurance-trust revenue); it excludes borrowing and transfers between the government's own funds. Spending = all expenditure (current operations, capital outlay, interest, assistance and payments to other governments); it excludes repayment of debt principal. Property tax = property tax revenue (Census code T01), the government's own levy; it is part of revenue, not an addition. Revenue, spending and property tax are separate measures and are never added together. These are actual results as reported to Census, on Census's classification, not the parishes' audited fund statements. A figure is left empty when more than 10% of its dollars are Census estimates (imputations); Census's estimate is kept in the data file, labeled as an estimate. Population is the Census Bureau's July 1, 2022 estimate (Vintage 2025); the data file also carries the July 1, 2025 estimate from the same release. 55 of the 64 governments were also in the Census 2024 Annual Survey (a sample) and have separate 2024 figures in the data file: a different year, never mixed with or compared to 2022 on the page. Spending per resident is our division of the county’s reported spending by its population.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Census of Governments: Finance, individual unit file (Louisiana's 60 parish governments and 4 consolidated city-parish governments; thousands of dollars); U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances, individual unit files (a sample); U.S. Census Bureau, county population estimates, Vintage 2025 (co-est2025-alldata); U.S. Census Bureau, Individual State Descriptions: 2022 Census of Governments (Louisiana, printed page 122: parish governments, consolidated city-parish governments counted as municipal governments); Louisiana Legislative Auditor, Louisiana Governmental Audit Guide, 200-1100 Parish Governing Authorities (police jury and home rule forms; separately elected parish officials); Louisiana House of Representatives, State and Local Government primer, chapter 3A, Local Government, Structure and Organization (home rule charters; consolidated governments; list of charters as of October 2011); Louisiana Legislative Auditor, Local Government Financial Reports page (unaudited financial data spreadsheets 2014-2018; checked, not used for figures); Louisiana Legislative Auditor, 2018 Unaudited Financial Data (spreadsheet; checked, not used for figures).
What is not here yet
- No FY2026 ACFR (year ended June 30, 2026) had been published on Oct. 26, 2026; the Division of Administration's Annual Financial Report page lists reports through the year ended June 30, 2025.
- The FY2026-27 figures are the Office of Planning and Budget's tally of the enacted budget (State Budget, FY 2026-2027). They were not rebuilt line by line from Act 3 (HB 1) and the other 2026 appropriation acts; the Legislative Fiscal Office had posted analyses of HB 1 only through the Senate's amendments, not of the act as signed (checked Oct. 26, 2026).
- The FY2026-27 spending lines are OPB's six functional areas, printed rounded to $0.1 million in a chart; agency-by-agency figures by means of financing are in the same document (printed pages 35-44) and are not reproduced here.
- The Governor's June 24, 2026 letter lists 31 line-item vetoes in HB 1 by page and line, without amounts; OPB's State Budget shows a $1,482,000 transfer of vetoed items to the Overcollections Fund (Act 636 of 2026). The total of the vetoes was not separately checked.
- The ACFR's revenue categories do not separate federal from other intergovernmental revenue on the governmental funds statement; the ACFR's own description of intergovernmental revenue as federal grants is used in the measure note.
- No current Louisiana state compilation of parish revenues and spending was found. The Legislative Auditor receives each parish governing authority's annual audited financial report (searchable one entity at a time on lla.la.gov), and its Local Government Financial Reports page offers spreadsheets of financial data entered by the auditing CPAs, but the newest is for 2018 and the page says the figures were not verified by the Legislative Auditor (checked Oct. 26, 2026). Parishes' audited reports for 2023-2025 and adopted 2026 budgets were not collected; not yet checked, parish by parish.
- 2022 figures left empty because Census estimated more than 10% of the dollars: Allen, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Caldwell, Claiborne, East Carroll, Evangeline, Franklin, Iberville, Lafourche, LaSalle, Lincoln, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Red River, Sabine, St. Helena, St. James, St. Martin, St. Mary, Tensas, Vermilion, Vernon, Webster, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana (Census's estimates are kept in the data file, labeled). Parishes with a figure shown, out of 64: revenue 35, spending 33, property tax 49.
- Census 2024 Annual Survey is a sample: 9 parishes are not in it (Claiborne, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Grant, Madison, St. Helena, Tensas, Union, Webster); they have no 2024 figures (not zero). 2024 figures left empty because they were mostly Census estimates: revenue 36, spending 39, property tax 16.
- Rows that look unusual and were not checked against the parish's audit (shown as Census lists them, each with a note): none.
- Enterprise charges inside the 2022 revenue total (Census codes A36 hospitals and A01 air transportation; the matching costs are in the spending total): Acadia: hospital charges (A36) $15,920,000.00, air transportation charges (A01) $25,000.00; Allen: hospital charges (A36) $37,776,000.00; Ascension: hospital charges (A36) $5,491,000.00; Avoyelles: hospital charges (A36) $35,010,000.00; Beauregard: hospital charges (A36) $42,215,000.00; Caddo: hospital charges (A36) $29,384,000.00; Calcasieu: hospital charges (A36) $258,309,000.00, air transportation charges (A01) $2,953,000.00; Catahoula: hospital charges (A36) $2,846,000.00; Concordia: hospital charges (A36) $21,875,000.00, air transportation charges (A01) $48,000.00; East Baton Rouge: hospital charges (A36) $370,463,000.00, air transportation charges (A01) $15,972,000.00; East Carroll: hospital charges (A36) $11,190,000.00; Franklin: hospital charges (A36) $48,127,000.00; Iberia: hospital charges (A36) $117,264,000.00, air transportation charges (A01) $1,491,000.00; Jackson: hospital charges (A36) $19,436,000.00; Jefferson: hospital charges (A36) $4,932,000.00; Jefferson Davis: air transportation charges (A01) $596,000.00; Lafayette: air transportation charges (A01) $9,728,000.00; Lafourche: hospital charges (A36) $32,341,000.00; LaSalle: hospital charges (A36) $52,022,000.00; Madison: hospital charges (A36) $15,607,000.00; Morehouse: hospital charges (A36) $89,019,000.00; Natchitoches: hospital charges (A36) $83,827,000.00; Orleans: hospital charges (A36) $59,633,000.00, air transportation charges (A01) $93,881,000.00; Plaquemines: hospital charges (A36) $2,061,000.00; Pointe Coupee: air transportation charges (A01) $204,000.00; Red River: air transportation charges (A01) $37,000.00; Richland: hospital charges (A36) $60,896,000.00; St. Bernard: hospital charges (A36) $26,613,000.00; St. Charles: hospital charges (A36) $44,111,000.00, air transportation charges (A01) $614,000.00; St. Helena: hospital charges (A36) $3,773,000.00; St. James: hospital charges (A36) $129,741,000.00; St. Landry: hospital charges (A36) $179,798,000.00; St. Martin: hospital charges (A36) $300,000.00; St. Mary: hospital charges (A36) $62,518,000.00; St. Tammany: air transportation charges (A01) $83,000.00; Tangipahoa: hospital charges (A36) $19,129,000.00; Tensas: air transportation charges (A01) $1,000.00; Terrebonne: hospital charges (A36) $271,442,000.00; Union: hospital charges (A36) $30,194,000.00, air transportation charges (A01) $21,000.00; Vermilion: hospital charges (A36) $50,469,000.00; Washington: hospital charges (A36) $76,440,000.00; West Carroll: air transportation charges (A01) $44,000.00; West Feliciana: hospital charges (A36) $21,889,000.00. Governments that run a hospital or an airport are therefore not comparable with those that do not.
- Utility and sewerage revenue inside the 2022 revenue total: Acadia: gas, A93 $10,000.00; Allen: water, A91 $2,651,000.00; Ascension: water, A91 $3,016,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $1,395,000.00; Assumption: water, A91 $5,413,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $68,000.00; Avoyelles: water, A91 $996,000.00, transit, A94 $189,000.00; Beauregard: water, A91 $4,613,000.00; Bossier: sewerage charges, A80 $2,946,000.00; Caddo: water, A91 $2,183,000.00; Calcasieu: water, A91 $7,994,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $441,000.00; Caldwell: water, A91 $980,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $331,000.00; Cameron: water, A91 $1,948,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $175,000.00; Catahoula: water, A91 $169,000.00; Concordia: water, A91 $1,864,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $527,000.00; De Soto: water, A91 $2,100,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $7,049,000.00; East Baton Rouge: gas, A93 $2,934,000.00, transit, A94 $1,207,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $98,215,000.00; East Carroll: sewerage charges, A80 $62,000.00; East Feliciana: water, A91 $442,000.00, gas, A93 $777,000.00; Evangeline: water, A91 $536,000.00; Franklin: sewerage charges, A80 $62,000.00; Iberia: water, A91 $1,069,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $3,173,000.00; Iberville: water, A91 $3,759,000.00, gas, A93 $2,625,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $244,000.00; Jefferson: water, A91 $35,126,000.00, transit, A94 $1,755,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $26,854,000.00; Jefferson Davis: water, A91 $644,000.00; Lafayette: water, A91 $28,698,000.00, electric power, A92 $229,331,000.00, gas, A93 $20,000.00, transit, A94 $234,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $31,513,000.00; Lafourche: water, A91 $11,441,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $453,000.00; LaSalle: water, A91 $451,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $313,000.00; Lincoln: water, A91 $1,681,000.00; Livingston: water, A91 $7,171,000.00, gas, A93 $1,279,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $199,000.00; Madison: sewerage charges, A80 $1,000.00; Morehouse: water, A91 $447,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $19,000.00; Natchitoches: water, A91 $8,000.00; Orleans: water, A91 $124,517,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $150,826,000.00; Ouachita: water, A91 $738,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $240,000.00; Plaquemines: water, A91 $4,958,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $1,656,000.00; Pointe Coupee: water, A91 $686,000.00, gas, A93 $2,504,000.00; Rapides: water, A91 $5,570,000.00; Red River: sewerage charges, A80 $24,000.00; Sabine: water, A91 $4,988,000.00; St. Bernard: water, A91 $6,000,000.00, transit, A94 $79,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $7,314,000.00; St. Charles: water, A91 $13,552,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $13,788,000.00; St. Helena: water, A91 $1,077,000.00; St. John the Baptist: water, A91 $6,584,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $5,342,000.00; St. Landry: water, A91 $972,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $77,000.00; St. Martin: water, A91 $940,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $220,000.00; St. Mary: water, A91 $3,581,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $815,000.00; St. Tammany: water, A91 $7,405,000.00, transit, A94 $20,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $7,989,000.00; Tangipahoa: water, A91 $8,250,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $3,099,000.00; Tensas: water, A91 $1,274,000.00; Terrebonne: water, A91 $18,316,000.00, electric power, A92 $32,359,000.00, gas, A93 $7,734,000.00, transit, A94 $76,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $7,376,000.00; Union: water, A91 $538,000.00; Vermilion: water, A91 $4,396,000.00; Vernon: water, A91 $5,200,000.00; Washington: water, A91 $2,144,000.00, gas, A93 $723,000.00; Webster: water, A91 $227,000.00, electric power, A92 $1,039,000.00, gas, A93 $346,000.00; West Feliciana: water, A91 $2,194,000.00, gas, A93 $3,770,000.00, sewerage charges, A80 $237,000.00; Winn: sewerage charges, A80 $59,000.00.
- The four consolidated governments (East Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Orleans, Terrebonne) are city-parish governments that Census counts as municipal governments; their figures include city services and are left out of the statewide totals.
- Fiscal years differ: Census lists these governments' 2022 fiscal year ends as Lafayette: Fiscal year 2021-22 (November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2022; as Census lists the fiscal year end); Orleans: Fiscal year 2021-22 (December 1, 2021 to November 30, 2022; as Census lists the fiscal year end); every other row is calendar year 2022. The fiscal year ends are as Census lists them and were not checked against each government's audit.
- Census's 2022 records show police protection spending (Census code E62) for many parish governments, and hospital and utility revenue for many (listed above). Whether Census folds in the finances of sheriffs, other separately elected parish officers, hospital service districts and other parish-created districts, which file their own audits with the Legislative Auditor, was not checked against Census's classification of each unit; figures may therefore cover more than the police jury or parish council's own funds, and not in the same way in every parish. Not yet checked.
- Which parishes are governed by a police jury and which by a home rule charter is not recorded per parish: the House primer's list of home rule parishes is as of October 2011 and was not brought up to date.
- Census figures follow Census's own classification and do not match a parish's audited fund statements or adopted budget line for line.
- No statewide source of actual pay for elected parish officials (sheriffs, clerks of court, assessors, coroners, police jurors, parish council members and parish presidents) was found. The Legislative Auditor's site holds each office's audit report, with its agency head compensation schedule, one entity at a time; these were not collected. Not yet checked, parish by parish.
- Sheriffs: R.S. 13:5521 no longer prints a salary schedule; it says sheriffs' pay may be raised only by legislative act and adds an expense allowance and a $12,000 increase from July 1, 1999. The acts that set the current rate were not traced, so no figure is given.
- Clerks of court: R.S. 13:782 prints base ceilings by population with yearly percentage increases (4% a year through FY2016-17, 5% a year through FY2027-28, the latter only after published notice), and other subsections add further pay; the current ceiling is not printed in the statute, so none is calculated here.
- Coroners' pay and parish council and parish president pay under home rule charters were not checked.
- Statutes were read on the Legislature's website (legis.la.gov) on Oct. 26, 2026; they were not checked against the 2026 session laws for amendments the website might not yet show.
Gaps in the public money records as of the date checked.