That's an increase of 12.3 percent from 2014, when the city spent $315,090.39, or $1,810.86 per household.
Prairie has 174 households and a population of 461.
Since 2001, the Village of Prairie City budget has fallen by 90.1 percent, from $3.56 million. The city population has remained same.
Salaries accounted for 6.6 percent of city spending in 2015. Prairie property taxpayers paid $23,367.18 for six part-time employees, or an average of $3,894.53 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the city had 14 part-time employees and spent $22,713.23, or $1,622.37 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
461
$353,730.90
$23,367.18
6.6
6
$3,894.53
2014
461
$315,090.39
$27,303.24
8.7
6
$4,550.54
2013
461
$300,414.40
$23,948.08
8
6
$3,991.34
2012
461
$321,614.60
$24,869.72
7.7
6
$4,144.95
2011
461
$288,031.68
$28,681.56
10
6
$4,780.26
2010
461
$295,260
$22,394.25
7.6
6
$3,732.37
2009
461
$377,388.36
$25,584.33
6.8
6
$4,264.05
2008
461
$385,090.44
$24,200.08
6.3
6
$4,033.34
2007
461
$347,543.82
$24,237.72
7
6
$4,039.62
2006
461
$329,695.20
$25,375.20
7.7
6
$4,229.19
2005
461
$361,150
$21,766.96
6
6
$3,627.82
2004
461
$338,844.30
$23,239.35
6.9
6
$3,873.22
2003
461
$344,388
$26,227.08
7.6
6
$4,371.18
2002
461
$3,517,929.90
$35,711.55
1
16
$2,231.97
2001
461
$3,564,466
$22,713.23
0.6
14
$1,622.37
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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