How do salaries work

[RedKnight]

Lars, that must be chance. My capitol is doing fine, but another city of mine is being negative. Or it was, for the first few hours. I think we need to give it more time to understand what's going on. It might be that you have a lot of troops there, so that city is spending a lot of upkeep relative to other cities - like others said here, it looks like the income goes into a big pot, then expenses are shown out of that. Stay tuned - happy to be proved wrong, as long as we all find out how it really works.

[andrewt]

Income for the city is that city's income. Expenses are the total expenses for all the units in your empire proportioned based on city popultation. So if your capital has a high population, it gets a higher share of the expenses. I'm playing Julii and my capital gets a lot of trade income.