I also prefer player should effected badly from going up food prices because his companion parties also pay much to food, or player should get income if his clan parties make successfull raids, these are must of course. However current wage system is hard to be understood by player. Somedays you pay huge wages to your parties somedays you pay less somedays you receive money. These things should be explained better. Its so complex and differ much day to day currently. I prefer having extra lines in finance summary maybe for helping your companion party to make its money 5000 again and extra line for stable wages. It will be easier to understand but more lines.
Maybe create an additional ledger screen in the clan overview, where the expenses for everything are a little bit more detailed. It could even include some historic data, for example the wages for the last seven days or something like that. It could also contain the last seven days for your caravans and workshops.