A budget is not a spreadsheet. It's a story about who matters.

Every figure on this site is drawn from public Austrian sources: BMF Themengliederung CSVs (federal budget by category and sub-line, 2022–2025), Statistik Austria (population, income, employment by background), AMS (labor market and Kurzarbeit), COFAG and the Rechnungshof (COVID-19 emergency support), OECD (international comparisons). Default figures are nominal euros — how the budget is voted on. Use the Real € toggle in the header to deflate every figure to a constant base year using Statistik Austria's Verbraucherpreisindex VPI 2020=100(annual averages). Real-EUR mode rescales totals, breakdowns, and timeline charts so multi-year comparisons reflect purchasing-power changes rather than headline growth. The EN/DE toggle translates German budget labels (categories, Untergliederungen, sub-lines) to English; switch to EN+DE to see both side by side.

Where the federal budget is not officially split by Bundesland — which is most of it — the regional view shows a clearly-labeled population-share estimate, never an official allocation.

A line is marked ▲ flagged when actual spending in a single year departs from the line's trajectory by more than 15%, after smoothing. The flag is a conversation starter, not a verdict. Sometimes a 40% spike is a scandal. Sometimes it's a pandemic. We try to write a one-sentence note explaining which it is.

This is not the official source. For binding figures, refer to the Bundesministerium für Finanzen. We publish nothing without a reference, but we don't pretend to replace the books — only to make them legible.

We don't take political contributions. We don't run advertising. We don't accept paid placements of any line item, ever.

• Federal budget rows & revenue (2022–2025) — BMF Themengliederung CSVs (vorläufiger Gebarungserfolg). bmf.gv.at
• Per-Bundesland figures — modeled by us as population-share of the federal category total. Population from Statistik Austria Bevölkerungsstand. Not an official allocation.
• Migration analysis — modeled flows combining Statistik Austria (Lohnsteuerstatistik, Bevölkerungsstand, Migration & Integration), AMS Arbeitsmarktdaten, BMSGPK Sozialhilfe-Statistik and OECD International Migration Outlook with BMF totals. Each row carries its source on the page.
• COVID-19 emergency spending — published totals from the Rechnungshof Bund 2023/14 report, COFAG Schlussbericht, BMF COVID Wirkungsbericht and AMS Kurzarbeit-Statistik. Rows carry a high or medium confidence flag.
• What we do not publish — per-vendor invoices, per-Bezirk or per-PLZ federal allocations. Those datasets do not exist publicly at the federal level, so we do not invent them.