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Thursday, April 25, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Brown County

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The Brown County budget was $8.32 million for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 6.4 percent from 2015, when the county spent $8.89 million.

Brown County has a population of 6,950.

Since 2001, the Brown County budget has grown by 57.7 percent, from $5.28 million. The county population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 19.6 percent of county spending in 2016. Brown County property taxpayers paid $1.63 million for 53 full-time employees and seven part-time employees.

In 2001, the county had 61 full-time employees and 58 part-time employees, and spent $1.36 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
6,950
$8,322,736
$1,632,028
19.6
60
$27,200
2015
69,370
$8,893,445
$1,683,443
18.9
72
$23,381
2014
6,937
$7,981,768
$1,487,570
18.6
72
$20,661
2013
6,937
$8,465,628
$1,431,112
16.9
68
$21,046
2012
6,937
$7,458,974
$1,560,228
20.9
68
$22,945
2011
6,937
$7,804,391
$1,853,621
23.8
68
$27,259
2010
6,591
$7,454,579
$1,544,343
20.7
68
$22,711
2009
6,950
$7,605,181
$1,876,038
24.7
119
$15,765
2008
6,950
$6,734,127
$1,380,118
20.5
119
$11,598
2007
6,950
$8,608,155
$1,515,005
17.6
119
$12,731
2006
6,950
$7,223,546
$1,554,820
21.5
119
$13,066
2005
6,950
$7,725,936
$1,633,720
21.1
119
$13,729
2004
6,950
$7,089,995
$1,576,590
22.2
119
$13,249
2003
6,950
$7,835,029
$1,562,630
19.9
119
$13,131
2002
6,950
$6,286,734
$1,526,769
24.3
119
$12,830
2001
6,950
$5,276,734
$1,364,225
25.9
119
$11,464

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

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