Quantcast

West Central Reporter

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

The price of local government: City of Macomb

Budget 08

The City of Macomb budget was $33.99 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $4,903.09 per household.

That's an increase of 5.9 percent from 2014, when the city spent $32.09 million, or $4,628.73 per household.

Macomb has 6,933 households and a population of 21,516.

Since 2001, the City of Macomb budget has grown by 60.5 percent, from $21.18 million. The city population has grown 15.9 percent over the same period, from 18,558.

Salaries accounted for 17.9 percent of city spending in 2015. Macomb property taxpayers paid $6.08 million for 101 full-time employees and 18 part-time employees.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
21,516
$33,993,135.06
$6,078,458.46
17.9
119
$51,079.48
2014
19,265
$32,090,965.31
$5,850,749.17
18.2
118
$49,582.62
2013
19,254
$46,431,679.84
$5,732,657.84
12.3
120
$47,772.14
2012
19,288
$43,237,416.96
$5,708,473.12
13.2
120
$47,570.60
2011
20,044
$30,962,529.72
$5,452,693.20
17.6
116
$47,005.97
2010
20,050
$29,032,422.96
$5,592,218.85
19.3
116
$48,208.78
2009
20,045
$29,344,299.91
$5,667,617.83
19.3
113
$50,155.90
2008
20,045
$24,796,264.61
$5,305,273.16
21.4
110
$48,229.75
2007
20,045
$21,354,827.13
$5,661,750.51
26.5
102
$55,507.35
2006
20,045
$26,393,546.40
$5,615,310
21.3
103
$54,517.57
2005
20,045
$22,798,757.80
$5,539,944.28
24.3
99
$55,959.03
2004
20,045
$9,288,000
$5,525,827.23
59.5
115
$48,050.67
2003
18,558
$19,727,439.60
$5,746,654.32
29.1
102
$56,339.74
2002
18,558
$20,803,663.35
$5,457,026.70
26.2
113
$48,292.27
2001
18,558
$21,183,024.94
unavailable
unavailable
106
$0

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

ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS STORY

!RECEIVE ALERTS

The next time we write about any of these orgs, we’ll email you a link to the story. You may edit your settings or unsubscribe at any time.
Sign-up

DONATE

Help support the Metric Media Foundation's mission to restore community based news.
Donate

MORE NEWS