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The price of local government in 2017: City of Bushnell

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The City of Bushnell budget was $463,308 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the city spent $476,935.

Bushnell has a population of 269.

Since 2001, the City of Bushnell budget has grown by 117.5 percent, from $213,000. The city population has fallen 32.8 percent over the same period, from 400.

Salaries accounted for 7.1 percent of city spending in 2017. Bushnell property taxpayers paid $32,957 for three part-time employees, or an average of $10,986 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the city had two part-time employees and spent $34,784, or $17,392 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
269
$463,308
$32,957
7.1
3
$10,986
2016
269
$476,935
$32,344
6.8
3
$10,781
2015
269
$506,175
$31,563
6.2
3
$10,521
2014
277
$506,175
$31,058
6.1
5
$6,212
2013
277
$515,726
$31,011
6
5
$6,202
2012
400
$520,501
$32,205
6.2
5
$6,441
2011
400
$539,602
$32,610
6
5
$6,522
2010
400
$517,815
$34,714
6.7
5
$6,943
2009
400
$531,442
$33,815
6.4
5
$6,763
2008
400
$531,442
$31,136
5.9
5
$6,227
2007
400
$554,153
$34,349
6.2
5
$6,870
2006
400
$245,225
$34,826
14.2
5
$6,965
2001
400
$213,000
$34,784
16.3
2
$17,392

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

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