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Friday, November 22, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Orion

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The Village of Orion budget was $4.07 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $5,326.96 per household.

That's a decrease of 15 percent from 2014, when the village spent $4.79 million, or $6,264.26 per household.

Orion has 764 households and a population of 1,688.

Since 2001, the Village of Orion budget has grown by 3.9 percent, from $3.92 million. The village population has fallen 6.7 percent over the same period, from 1,810.

Salaries accounted for 6.4 percent of village spending in 2015. Orion property taxpayers paid $260,084.70 for four full-time employees and six part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had four full-time employees and four part-time employees, and spent $270,885.99.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
1,688
$4,069,800
$260,084.70
6.4
10
$26,008.47
2014
1,688
$4,785,895
$250,027.35
5.2
10
$25,002.73
2013
1,688
$3,754,088
$238,509.44
6.4
10
$23,850.94
2012
1,688
$3,643,962
$245,153.62
6.7
10
$24,515.36
2011
1,688
$3,542,076
$250,455.24
7.1
10
$25,045.52
2010
1,688
$3,900,429
$259,446.96
6.7
10
$25,944.69
2009
1,688
$3,575,207
$285,108.04
8
9
$31,678.67
2008
1,711
$3,883,697
$279,654.66
7.2
9
$31,072.74
2007
1,711
$3,554,343
$278,716.23
7.8
9
$30,968.47
2006
1,710
$3,369,840
$268,035.60
8
9
$29,781.73
2005
1,810
$4,632,888
$282,023.12
6.1
9
$31,335.90
2004
1,810
$2,991,510
$286,008.48
9.6
9
$31,778.72
2003
1,810
$6,078,204
$292,533.12
4.8
9
$32,503.68
2002
1,810
$9,102,645
$272,039.85
3
9
$30,226.64
2001
1,810
$3,916,327.21
$270,885.99
6.9
8
$33,860.74

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

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