Performance (March 2025):

The budget variance for the month of March was unfavorable at 24.48% over the forecast, mostly due to unfavorable variances in labor, contractual services and liability costs. The 2025 Fiscal Year-to-Date (months of July through March) budget variance was unfavorable at 14.26% over the forecast, mostly due to an unfavorable variance in labor and liability costs.

Note: In April 2025, we revised the budget variance formula in this report to match other Finance reporting. The calculation previously showed a positive value when over-budget and negative when under-budget. With this revision, values that are over-budget will be negative (i.e., unfavorable) and under-budget will be positive (i.e., favorable). This inversion is the only change, and it matches the calculation to other public financial reporting at MARTA. It will apply to historical and current values.