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The price of local government: Village of Alma

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The Village of Alma budget was $272,701.08 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,855.11 per household.

That's a decrease of 4.8 percent from 2014, when the village spent $286,396.65, or $1,948.28 per household.

Alma has 147 households and a population of 320.

Since 2001, the Village of Alma budget has grown by 16.9 percent, from $233,242.50. The village population has fallen 17.1 percent over the same period, from 386.

Salaries accounted for 15.7 percent of village spending in 2015. Alma property taxpayers paid $42,739.02 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $3,287.62 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 13 part-time employees and spent $56,749.51, or $4,365.35 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
320
$272,701.08
$42,739.02
15.7
13
$3,287.61
2014
320
$286,396.65
$42,855.21
15
13
$3,296.55
2013
320
$299,403.52
$42,234.40
14.1
13
$3,248.79
2011
320
$155,485.44
$32,012.28
20.6
14
$2,286.59
2010
386
$172,383
$37,889.85
22
3
$12,629.94
2002
386
$217,012.50
$57,802.95
26.6
13
$4,446.38
2001
386
$233,242.50
$56,749.51
24.3
13
$4,365.34

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

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