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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Broadwell

Budget 08

The Village of Broadwell budget was $100,804 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,459 per household.

That's a decrease of 5.5 percent from 2016, when the village spent $106,680, or $2,602 per household.

Broadwell has 41 households and a population of 147.

Since 2001, the Village of Broadwell budget has fallen by 88 percent, from $839,192. The village population has fallen 13 percent over the same period, from 169.

Salaries accounted for 11.8 percent of village spending in 2017. Broadwell property taxpayers paid $11,849 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $1,317 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
147
$100,804
$11,849
11.8
9
$1,317
2016
147
$106,680
$7,760
7.3
9
$862
2015
147
$133,936
$4,661
3.5
9
$518
2014
147
$119,934
$11,588
9.7
9
$1,288
2013
145
$76,169
$12,871
16.9
9
$1,430
2012
145
$76,874
$12,441
16.2
8
$1,555
2011
145
$115,404
$11,015
9.5
8
$1,377
2010
168
$96,444
$11,191
11.6
11
$1,017
2007
168
$677,100
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2006
169
$50,963
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2003
169
$25,704
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2002
169
$582,775
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2001
169
$839,192
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable

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

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