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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Keensburg

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The Village of Keensburg budget was $116,185 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,709 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.5 percent from 2016, when the village spent $119,183, or $1,753 per household.

Keensburg has 68 households and a population of 205.

Since 2001, the Village of Keensburg budget has fallen by 7.8 percent, from $126,073. The village population has fallen 31.7 percent over the same period, from 300.

Salaries accounted for 16.4 percent of village spending in 2017. Keensburg property taxpayers paid $19,065 for five part-time employees, or an average of $3,813 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had two part-time employees and spent $9,354, or $4,677 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
205
$116,185
$19,065
16.4
5
$3,813
2016
205
$119,183
$17,572
14.7
5
$3,514
2015
350
$119,939
$16,587
13.8
4
$4,147
2014
350
$114,639
$17,457
15.2
4
$4,364
2013
350
$114,642
$21,294
18.6
4
$5,324
2012
350
$100,226
$23,568
23.5
4
$5,892
2011
350
$102,774
$24,747
24.1
3
$8,249
2010
350
$100,152
$25,910
25.9
4
$6,477
2009
350
$156,500
$14,939
9.5
4
$3,735
2008
350
$157,950
$13,781
8.7
4
$3,445
2007
350
$152,500
$15,507
10.2
4
$3,877
2006
350
$106,750
$14,638
13.7
4
$3,659
2005
350
$106,340
$15,802
14.9
4
$3,950
2004
350
$45,158
$10,857
24
2
$5,428
2003
350
$110,704
$18,685
16.9
2
$9,343
2002
350
$42,700
$15,282
35.8
2
$7,641
2001
300
$126,073
$9,354
7.4
2
$4,677

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

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