If you were to look at it yet another way, again year-over-year changes, but instead of looking at all spending, we could look at just wage changes. These changes are the result of across-the-board wage increases, merit and promotion, additional staff, and the impact of filling or experiencing vacancies. The following chart shows the year-over-year impact of actual wage expenses for FY17-19 and the budget for FY20. The steep increase in FY20 is, again, due to not budgeting for vacancies.
It is important to note that simple year-over-year changes only tell one part of the story—it matters how big the base is to begin with. ASL is about 65 percent of the total spending so one would expect that the annual increase would be 65 percent of the total. In both of the last two charts that is not the case prior to the implementation of the new governance structure. Only in FY19 and potentially
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