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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Dorchester

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The Village of Dorchester budget was $120,156 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2,225.11 per household.

That's a decrease of one percent from 2014, when the village spent $121,334, or $2,246.93 per household.

Dorchester has 54 households and a population of 151.

Since 2001, the Village of Dorchester budget has grown by 85.4 percent, from $64,801. The village population has grown 0.7 percent over the same period, from 150.

Salaries accounted for 16.1 percent of village spending in 2015. Dorchester property taxpayers paid $19,401.42 for four part-time employees, or an average of $4,850.36 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $13,930.16, or $1,266.38 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
151
$120,156
$19,401.42
16.1
4
$4,850.35
2014
151
$121,334
$18,937.58
15.6
4
$4,734.39
2013
151
$122,512
$17,720.56
14.5
4
$4,430.14
2012
151
$124,868
$17,319.34
13.9
4
$4,329.83
2011
151
$126,684
$18,750.96
14.8
4
$4,687.74
2010
150
$130,203
$19,704.72
15.1
4
$4,926.18
2009
150
$132,549
$17,773.77
13.4
4
$4,443.44
2008
150
$132,549
$9,337.19
7
4
$2,334.29
2007
150
$137,241
$9,484.02
6.9
4
$2,371
2006
150
$140,760
$11,979.60
8.5
4
$2,994.90
2005
150
$153,793.48
$12,967.92
8.4
4
$3,241.98
2004
150
$61,017
$11,997
19.7
10
$1,199.70
2003
150
$62,436
$12,144
19.5
10
$1,214.40
2002
150
$63,855
$12,825
20.1
11
$1,165.90
2001
150
$64,801
$13,930.16
21.5
11
$1,266.37

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

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