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The price of local government: Village of Rock City

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The Village of Rock City budget was $114,291 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $772.24 per household.

That's a decrease of 8.3 percent from 2014, when the city spent $124,702.10, or $842.58 per household.

Rock has 148 households and a population of 314.

Since 2001, the Village of Rock City budget has grown by 46 percent, from $78,295.50. The city population has grown 0.3 percent over the same period, from 313.

Salaries accounted for 14 percent of city spending in 2015. Rock property taxpayers paid $16,051.74 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $1,459.25 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the city had 16 part-time employees and spent $18,995.05, or $1,187.19 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
314
$114,291
$16,051.74
14
11
$1,459.24
2014
314
$124,702.10
$12,645.31
10.1
11
$1,149.57
2013
320
$116,532
$14,049.36
12.1
13
$1,080.72
2012
320
$64,713
$15,161.18
23.4
11
$1,378.28
2011
320
$68,742
$15,337.08
22.3
12
$1,278.09
2010
320
$70,581.57
$15,477.84
21.9
12
$1,289.82
2009
320
$70,027.23
$15,080.98
21.5
11
$1,370.99
2008
320
$63,760.25
$15,587.22
24.4
13
$1,199.01
2007
320
$79,560
$15,115.23
19
14
$1,079.65
2006
320
$81,600
$16,303.20
20
14
$1,164.51
2005
320
$55,171.32
$16,589.96
30.1
15
$1,105.99
2004
320
$57,211.50
$17,538.84
30.7
14
$1,252.77
2003
313
$115,271.64
$18,266.16
15.8
13
$1,405.08
2002
313
$119,693.70
$18,114.30
15.1
15
$1,207.61
2001
313
$78,295.50
$18,995.05
24.3
16
$1,187.19

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

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