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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Bowen

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The Village of Bowen budget was $663,044 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $3,349 per household.

That's a decrease of two percent from 2016, when the village spent $676,875, or $3,419 per household.

Bowen has 198 households and a population of 462.

Since 2001, the Village of Bowen budget has fallen by 80.9 percent, from $3.48 million. The village population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 6.9 percent of village spending in 2017. Bowen property taxpayers paid $45,574 for one full-time employee and 10 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and four part-time employees, and spent $60,067.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
462
$663,044
$45,574
6.9
11
$4,143
2016
462
$676,875
$49,454
7.3
13
$3,804
2015
462
$615,627
$60,077
9.8
13
$4,621
2014
462
$588,623
$58,414
9.9
5
$11,683
2013
462
$548,321
$56,107
10.2
5
$11,221
2012
462
$553,398
$56,467
10.2
5
$11,293
2011
462
$568,848
$58,827
10.3
5
$11,765
2010
462
$570,519
$37,088
6.5
5
$7,418
2009
462
$414,332
$55,546
13.4
5
$11,109
2008
462
$452,299
$66,371
14.7
5
$13,274
2007
462
$465,650
$63,683
13.7
5
$12,737
2006
462
$474,600
$66,455
14
5
$13,291
2005
462
$493,584
$62,082
12.6
5
$12,416
2004
462
$506,761
$61,258
12.1
5
$12,252
2003
462
$698,741
$74,089
10.6
5
$14,818
2002
462
$3,429,552
$57,991
1.7
5
$11,598
2001
462
$3,478,546
$60,067
1.7
5
$12,013

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

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