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The price of local government in 2016: Village of Dorchester

Budget 09

The Village of Dorchester budget was $123,690 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $1,846 per household.

That's a decrease of 0.9 percent from 2015, when the village spent $124,868, or $1,864 per household.

Dorchester has 67 households and a population of 151.

Since 2001, the Village of Dorchester budget has grown by 84.2 percent, from $67,166. The village population has grown 0.7 percent over the same period, from 150.

Salaries accounted for 15.8 percent of village spending in 2016. Dorchester property taxpayers paid $19,578 for four part-time employees, or an average of $4,895 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $14,439, or $1,313 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
151
$123,690
$19,578
15.8
4
$4,895
2015
151
$124,868
$20,162
16.1
4
$5,041
2014
151
$124,868
$19,489
15.6
4
$4,872
2013
151
$127,224
$18,402
14.5
4
$4,601
2012
151
$128,402
$17,810
13.9
4
$4,452
2011
151
$132,549
$19,619
14.8
4
$4,905
2010
150
$133,722
$20,237
15.1
4
$5,059
2009
150
$137,241
$18,403
13.4
4
$4,601
2008
150
$137,241
$9,668
7
4
$2,417
2007
150
$143,106
$9,889
6.9
4
$2,472
2006
150
$146,625
$12,479
8.5
4
$3,120
2005
150
$161,235
$13,595
8.4
4
$3,399
2004
150
$63,382
$12,462
19.7
10
$1,246
2003
150
$64,328
$12,512
19.5
10
$1,251
2002
150
$66,220
$13,300
20.1
11
$1,209
2001
150
$67,166
$14,439
21.5
11
$1,313

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

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