If you've begrudgingly paid a parking fine in the City of Perth recently, you're not alone.
The local council was projected to net more than $10 million from parking fines in the 2015-16 financial year - a figure requiring around 100,000 people, or 275 people a day, to receive the dreaded slip on their vehicle windscreen.
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Money made from parking fines
We asked some of Perth's larger councils to find out how much money they make from parking fines.
Revenue from the parking fines, issued by the city's 32 parking inspectors, is nearly five times more than that of its nearest competitor, the City of Vincent, which issued $2.11 million worth of fines in 2015.
The $10 million projected figure is $3 million more than what the City of Perth netted from parking fines in 2014-15, when it nabbed 97,000 drivers at a total cost of $7.64 million.
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The figure comes after a City of Perth parking inspector was caught on CCTV wrongly issuing a fine to a delivery van parked in a loading zone in June.
After WAtoday published the footage, the council retracted its fine and said it was reviewing the incident, but refused to divulge whether the parking inspector would be reprimanded or charged.
The City of Perth monitors 15,000 parking bays - four times the number monitored by the City of Fremantle.
The port city council netted around $2 million from 24,000 parking fines in 2015-16 while the City of Subiaco bagged $1.47 million from 25,000 fines in 2014-15.
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The City of Perth also leads the way with the number of parking inspectors it employs (32), with the next highest council being the City of Vincent with 15 rangers (who complete various council duties including parking) and the City of Fremantle with 12 dedicated parking inspectors.
Its income from parking tickets (rather than fines) is one of its biggest money makers, with an estimated $78 million expected to have been collected in the 2015-16 financial year.
The income from both parking tickets and fees (projected at $88.48 million) goes partly towards countering a $17 million parking bay licence fee the city pays to the Department of Transport, maintenance, and a parking levy imposed by the state government.
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