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Thursday, April 25, 2024

The price of local government: City of Quincy

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The City of Quincy budget was $70.09 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $4,153.63 per household.

That's a decrease of 43.1 percent from 2014, when the city spent $123.26 million, or $7,304.19 per household.

Quincy has 16,875 households and a population of 40,633.

Since 2001, the City of Quincy budget has fallen by 31.3 percent, from $102.06 million. The city population has grown 0.7 percent over the same period, from 40,366.

Salaries accounted for 29.2 percent of city spending in 2015. Quincy property taxpayers paid $20.45 million for 315 full-time employees and 40 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 385 full-time employees and 70 part-time employees, and spent $21.49 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
40,633
$70,092,510.96
$20,445,775.56
29.2
355
$57,593.73
2014
40,633
$123,258,192.44
$20,600,379.04
16.7
369
$55,827.58
2013
40,633
$124,112,201.20
$20,636,937.36
16.6
377
$54,739.88
2012
40,633
$166,042,589.12
$20,584,375.32
12.4
384
$53,605.14
2011
40,633
$108,177,776.64
$20,331,873.72
18.8
400
$50,829.68
2010
40,366
$106,918,591.05
$23,261,934.78
21.8
402
$57,865.50
2009
39,983
$100,653,623.39
$22,481,606.51
22.3
421
$53,400.49
2008
39,983
$100,451,696.91
$21,347,957.74
21.3
430
$49,646.41
2007
40,366
$500,192,374.50
$21,227,714.82
4.2
410
$51,774.91
2006
40,366
$99,293,590.80
$20,744,920.80
20.9
418
$49,628.99
2005
39,669
$103,134,818.84
$20,659,881.80
20
415
$49,782.84
2004
40,366
$28,011,732.09
$20,689,997.82
73.9
415
$49,855.41
2003
39,916
$80,357,521.20
$21,348,573.84
26.6
417
$51,195.62
2002
40,366
$84,094,992.45
$21,753,770.40
25.9
437
$49,779.79
2001
40,366
$102,061,191.40
$21,486,795.04
21.1
455
$47,223.72

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

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