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Monday, April 21, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Gladstone

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The Village of Gladstone budget was $279,227 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,387 per household.

That's a decrease of 12.1 percent from 2013, when the village spent $317,642, or $2,715 per household.

Gladstone has 117 households and a population of 285.

Since 2001, the Village of Gladstone budget has grown by 96.5 percent, from $142,071. The village population has fallen five percent over the same period, from 300.

Salaries accounted for 7.4 percent of village spending in 2017. Gladstone property taxpayers paid $20,778 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $2,078 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 12 part-time employees and spent $12,415, or $1,035 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
285
$279,227
$20,778
7.4
10
$2,078
2013
284
$317,642
$27,842
8.8
12
$2,320
2012
284
$947,324
$27,920
2.9
14
$1,994
2011
284
$202,316
$16,773
8.3
14
$1,198
2010
284
$199,128
$14,943
7.5
22
$679
2009
284
$197,847
$16,228
8.2
22
$738
2008
284
$197,847
$16,313
8.2
22
$742
2007
284
$515,206
$16,901
3.3
22
$768
2006
284
$211,375
$17,575
8.3
22
$799
2005
284
$219,830
$13,620
6.2
21
$649
2004
284
$226,594
$18,302
8.1
21
$872
2003
284
$229,976
$17,042
7.4
21
$812
2002
284
$236,740
$13,888
5.9
21
$661
2001
300
$142,071
$12,415
8.7
12
$1,035

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

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