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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Biggsville

Budget 08

The Village of Biggsville budget was $375,978 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,937 per household.

That's an increase of 0.8 percent from 2016, when the village spent $372,898, or $2,913 per household.

Biggsville has 128 households and a population of 286.

Since 2001, the Village of Biggsville budget has grown by 263.2 percent, from $103,518. The village population has fallen 58.8 percent over the same period, from 695.

Salaries accounted for 4.5 percent of village spending in 2017. Biggsville property taxpayers paid $16,911 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $1,691 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 10 part-time employees and spent $26,545, or $2,655 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
286
$375,978
$16,911
4.5
10
$1,691
2016
286
$372,898
$16,802
4.5
10
$1,680
2015
286
$356,433
$16,663
4.7
10
$1,666
2014
305
$1,347,089
$15,280
1.1
9
$1,698
2013
301
$1,313,656
$19,913
1.5
10
$1,991
2012
301
$1,306,676
$22,136
1.7
10
$2,214
2011
301
$1,353,723
$25,741
1.9
10
$2,574
2010
301
$1,909,369
$26,177
1.4
10
$2,618
2009
343
$1,992,258
$27,828
1.4
10
$2,783
2008
343
$286,501
$27,799
9.7
10
$2,780
2007
343
$454,740
$28,996
6.4
10
$2,900
2006
343
$569,279
$29,713
5.2
12
$2,476
2005
343
$615,290
$30,836
5
12
$2,570
2004
695
$376,557
$31,061
8.2
12
$2,588
2003
695
$133,008
$31,341
23.6
10
$3,134
2002
695
$117,600
$26,685
22.7
10
$2,669
2001
695
$103,518
$26,545
25.6
10
$2,655

All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.

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