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Friday, April 19, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Batchtown

Budget 10

The Village of Batchtown budget was $127,143 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,569.67 per household.

That's a decrease of 11.9 percent from 2014, when the village spent $144,354.50, or $1,782.15 per household.

Batchtown has 81 households and a population of 208.

Since 2001, the Village of Batchtown budget has grown by 24.9 percent, from $101,791. The village population has fallen 7.6 percent over the same period, from 225.

Salaries accounted for 10.6 percent of village spending in 2015. Batchtown property taxpayers paid $13,459.92 for five part-time employees, or an average of $2,691.98 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 13 part-time employees and spent $22,563.90, or $1,735.68 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
208
$127,143
$13,459.92
10.6
5
$2,691.98
2014
214
$144,354.50
$11,429.91
7.9
9
$1,269.99
2013
214
$161,260.32
$14,185.60
8.8
5
$2,837.12
2012
214
$120,151
$10,310.62
8.6
9
$1,145.62
2011
212
$157,410
$10,121.76
6.4
9
$1,124.63
2010
212
$161,782.50
$10,327.44
6.4
9
$1,147.49
2009
150
$139,837.50
$10,544.03
7.5
9
$1,171.55
2008
216
$108,819
$15,949.95
14.7
10
$1,594.99
2007
535
$108,985.50
$17,114.76
15.7
10
$1,711.47
2006
535
$121,320
$17,548.80
14.5
12
$1,462.40
2005
535
$132,494
$17,686.12
13.3
11
$1,607.82
2004
215
$140,352
$27,328.65
19.5
13
$2,102.20
2003
225
$133,617
$23,811.48
17.8
13
$1,831.65
2002
225
$106,515
$28,359.45
26.6
13
$2,181.49
2001
225
$101,791
$22,563.90
22.2
13
$1,735.68

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

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