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Thursday, June 26, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Browning

Budget 10

The Village of Browning budget was $107,171 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,143 per household.

That's an increase of 0.4 percent from 2016, when the village spent $106,727, or $2,135 per household.

Browning has 50 households and a population of 125.

Since 2001, the Village of Browning budget has fallen by 62.3 percent, from $284,210. The village population has fallen 35.9 percent over the same period, from 195.

Salaries accounted for 20.4 percent of village spending in 2017. Browning property taxpayers paid $21,817 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $1,983 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 10 part-time employees and spent $19,890, or $1,989 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
125
$107,171
$21,817
20.4
11
$1,983
2016
125
$106,727
$21,426
20.1
2
$10,713
2015
125
$157,197
$26,330
16.7
12
$2,194
2014
122
$143,911
$21,751
15.1
10
$2,175
2013
122
$349,294
$19,626
5.6
10
$1,963
2012
130
$88,522
$17,636
19.9
10
$1,764
2010
130
$90,917
$22,783
25.1
10
$2,278
2009
130
$93,310
$17,538
18.8
10
$1,754
2008
130
$128,466
$24,757
19.3
10
$2,476
2007
130
$160,034
$22,588
14.1
10
$2,259
2006
130
$137,250
$25,771
18.8
10
$2,577
2005
130
$125,701
$23,737
18.9
13
$1,826
2004
130
$126,396
$19,995
15.8
14
$1,428
2003
130
$136,136
$18,254
13.4
13
$1,404
2002
190
$139,720
$18,810
13.5
10
$1,881
2001
195
$284,210
$19,890
7
10
$1,989

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

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