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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Rockwood

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The Village of Rockwood budget was $28,462 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,095 per household.

That's an increase of 104.8 percent from 2016, when the village spent $13,897, or $534 per household.

Rockwood has 26 households and a population of 50.

Since 2001, the Village of Rockwood budget has grown by 147.1 percent, from $11,518. The village population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 6.6 percent of village spending in 2017. Rockwood property taxpayers paid $1,867 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $267 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had nine part-time employees and spent $3,086, or $343 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
50
$28,462
$1,867
6.6
7
$267
2016
50
$13,897
$2,116
15.2
7
$302
2015
50
$14,029
$2,382
17
7
$340
2014
50
$14,575
$2,221
15.2
7
$317
2013
50
$14,501
$2,009
13.9
7
$287
2012
50
$15,576
$2,391
15.4
9
$266
2011
500
$15,504
$2,373
15.3
9
$264
2010
50
$11,896
$2,531
21.3
9
$281
2009
50
$11,981
$2,738
22.9
9
$304
2008
50
$11,981
$2,562
21.4
9
$285
2007
50
$13,688
$2,782
20.3
9
$309
2006
50
$13,029
$2,831
21.7
9
$315
2005
50
$13,124
$3,088
23.5
9
$343
2004
50
$12,355
$2,935
23.8
9
$326
2003
50
$11,944
$2,774
23.2
9
$308
2002
50
$11,355
$2,702
23.8
9
$300
2001
50
$11,518
$3,086
26.8
9
$343

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

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