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Thursday, April 18, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Bowen

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The Village of Bowen budget was $592,395.60 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2,991.90 per household.

That's an increase of 3.6 percent from 2014, when the village spent $571,964.15, or $2,888.71 per household.

Bowen has 198 households and a population of 462.

Since 2001, the Village of Bowen budget has fallen by 82.3 percent, from $3.36 million. The village population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 9.8 percent of village spending in 2015. Bowen property taxpayers paid $57,809.52 for one full-time employee and 12 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and four part-time employees, and spent $57,952.37.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
462
$592,395.60
$57,809.52
9.8
13
$4,446.88
2014
462
$571,964.15
$56,761.24
9.9
5
$11,352.24
2013
462
$528,013.20
$54,029.04
10.2
5
$10,805.80
2012
462
$538,167.30
$54,913.30
10.2
5
$10,982.66
2011
462
$543,677.40
$56,223.72
10.3
5
$11,244.74
2010
462
$555,505.05
$36,111.63
6.5
5
$7,222.32
2009
462
$400,166.90
$53,646.75
13.4
5
$10,729.35
2008
462
$436,835.40
$64,101.51
14.7
5
$12,820.30
2007
462
$446,565.60
$61,072.83
13.7
5
$12,214.56
2006
462
$455,616
$63,796.80
14
5
$12,759.36
2005
462
$470,803.20
$59,216.20
12.6
5
$11,843.24
2004
462
$487,852.20
$58,972.35
12.1
5
$11,794.47
2003
462
$678,189.60
$71,909.64
10.6
5
$14,381.92
2002
462
$3,307,068
$55,919.70
1.7
5
$11,183.94
2001
462
$3,356,061.60
$57,952.37
1.7
5
$11,590.47

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

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