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The price of local government in 2016: Village of Monroe Center

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The Village of Monroe Center budget was $551,959 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $3,407 per household.

That's an increase of 6.8 percent from 2015, when the village spent $516,930, or $3,191 per household.

Monroe Center has 162 households and a population of 471.

Since 2005, the Village of Monroe Center budget has grown by 448.6 percent, from $100,620. The village population has fallen 4.7 percent over the same period, from 494.

Salaries accounted for 5.3 percent of village spending in 2016. Monroe Center property taxpayers paid $29,153 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $2,429 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2005, the village had two part-time employees and spent $1,560, or $780 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
471
$551,959
$29,153
5.3
12
$2,429
2015
471
$516,930
$21,812
4.2
10
$2,181
2014
471
$565,725
$21,783
3.9
11
$1,980
2013
471
$574,164
$18,576
3.2
10
$1,858
2012
471
$522,110
$19,075
3.7
10
$1,908
2011
494
$540,931
$19,973
3.7
10
$1,997
2010
494
$417,069
$11,343
2.7
2
$5,672
2009
494
$277,290
$9,009
3.2
2
$4,505
2008
494
$194,630
$6,201
3.2
2
$3,101
2007
494
$80,947
$5,124
6.3
3
$1,708
2006
494
$97,800
$4,650
4.8
7
$664
2005
494
$100,620
$1,560
1.6
2
$780

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

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