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The price of local government: Village of Brussels

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The Village of Brussels budget was $187,613.70 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $3,991.78 per household.

That's an increase of 41.7 percent from 2014, when the village spent $132,400.32, or $2,817.03 per household.

Brussels has 47 households and a population of 150.

Since 2001, the Village of Brussels budget has grown by 174.7 percent, from $68,294.50. The village population has grown 31.6 percent over the same period, from 114.

Salaries accounted for 3.3 percent of village spending in 2015. Brussels property taxpayers paid $6,120 for three part-time employees, or an average of $2,040 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and three part-time employees, and spent $17,862.06.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
150
$187,613.70
$6,120
3.3
3
$2,040
2014
150
$132,400.32
$6,118.20
4.6
3
$2,039.40
2013
150
$97,578
$11,294.40
11.6
10
$1,129.44
2012
150
$54,123.60
$6,177.68
11.4
3
$2,059.22
2011
1,330
$49,734
$6,173.28
12.4
6
$1,028.88
2008
141
$172,607.50
$15,283.25
8.9
6
$2,547.20
2007
141
$91,786.50
$15,205.32
16.6
6
$2,534.22
2006
141
$209,064
$14,940
7.1
6
$2,490
2005
141
$147,287.20
$17,162.84
11.7
6
$2,860.47
2004
141
$121,776
$36,983.01
30.4
6
$6,163.83
2003
114
$76,890
$16,785.12
21.8
4
$4,196.28
2002
114
$75,330
$18,947.25
25.2
4
$4,736.81
2001
114
$68,294.50
$17,862.06
26.2
4
$4,465.51

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

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