David Smith of Alberta had some comments that made me want to take a more detailed look at the RRSS finances.
Just forgetting about the tiny non-DCS revenue:
| RRSS Clients | 174 |
| DCS to RRSS | $24,694,230 |
| Per Client | $146,766 |
Total salaries (includes some administrators, but how many is unclear) $19,822,354
| Situation | Clients |
| Group Home | 67 |
| Small Options | 90 |
| Apartments | 17 |
| Total | 174 |
| Salary Expenses /client | $113,922 |
Based on the expenses of full and part time workers
| All Labor costs | people | % of people | Dollars | Per worker |
| | | | |
| Part time | 291 | 66% | $11,469,569 | $39,414 |
| Full time | 147 | 34% | $8,352,785 | $56,822 |
| Total | 438 | | $19,822,354 |
A client's share of salary expenses is
| Workers | Expense | |
| Full (66%) | $75,688 | 1.3 |
| Part(34%) | $38,234 | 1.0 |
| Total | $113,922 | 2.3 |
On average, each client has 2.3 FTE workers
And this expense breakdown:
| Salary | $113,922 | 78% |
| Room | $12,228 | 8% |
| Overhead (Board?) | $20,616 | 14% |
| Totals | $146,766 | 100% |
And a 4 person small options home has 9.2 workers to divide up the work.....
If you remember the DCS roadshow, there were 491 waitlisted for small options homes in 2016. $72,062,106. Affordable?
It's the salaries!
1 comment:
The union contract for RRSS is available online:
https://nsgeu.ca/filemanager/Agreements/Local66.pdf
That might assist your calculations for staffing hours, etc.
There's undoubtedly administrative bloat. But the contract obligations need to be factored in. Ie, not just straight hours, but also sick days and vacations, plus paying overtime to replacement staff who cover a sick co-worker. There might be a need to pay two overlapping salaries when training new workers. What kind of benefits are paid, and how much do those expenses add up?
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