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The price of local government in 2017: Village of West Brooklyn

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The Village of West Brooklyn budget was $246,177 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,256 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $253,418, or $1,293 per household.

West Brooklyn has 196 households and a population of 142.

Since 2001, the Village of West Brooklyn budget has grown by 204.4 percent, from $80,869. The village population has fallen 13.4 percent over the same period, from 164.

Salaries accounted for 4.6 percent of village spending in 2017. West Brooklyn property taxpayers paid $11,368 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $1,033 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $7,491, or $681 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
142
$246,177
$11,368
4.6
11
$1,033
2016
142
$253,418
$11,198
4.4
11
$1,018
2015
142
$254,771
$11,538
4.5
11
$1,049
2014
142
$349,111
$11,994
3.4
11
$1,090
2013
142
$354,618
$14,858
4.2
11
$1,351
2012
142
$197,944
$12,769
6.5
11
$1,161
2011
200
$227,808
$12,164
5.3
11
$1,106
2010
200
$235,524
$12,603
5.4
11
$1,146
2009
200
$207,090
$11,247
5.4
11
$1,022
2008
200
$244,589
$9,843
4
11
$895
2007
200
$184,464
$9,089
4.9
11
$826
2006
200
$124,075
$8,444
6.8
10
$844
2005
200
$84,864
$8,414
9.9
10
$841
2004
164
$12,100
$8,563
70.8
12
$714
2003
164
$78,064
$8,633
11.1
11
$785
2002
164
$80,430
$9,114
11.3
11
$829
2001
164
$80,869
$7,491
9.3
11
$681

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

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