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The price of local government: Village of Glen Carbon

Budget 12

The Village of Glen Carbon budget was $15.47 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $3,455.23 per household.

That's a decrease of 15.1 percent from 2014, when the village spent $18.21 million, or $4,067.85 per household.

Glen Carbon has 4,476 households and a population of 12,973.

Since 2001, the Village of Glen Carbon budget has fallen by 0.6 percent, from $15.56 million. The village population has grown 17.9 percent over the same period, from 11,000.

Salaries accounted for 22.7 percent of village spending in 2015. Glen Carbon property taxpayers paid $3.50 million for 60 full-time employees and 32 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 65 full-time employees and 20 part-time employees, and spent $2.71 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
12,973
$15,465,603.12
$3,504,511.92
22.7
92
$38,092.52
2014
12,974
$18,207,688.01
$3,628,297.57
19.9
92
$39,438.01
2013
12,973
$17,824,685.84
$3,834,289.68
21.5
84
$45,646.30
2012
12,934
$15,462,839.04
$4,005,872.50
25.9
118
$33,948.07
2011
12,934
$15,260,346
$3,926,335.68
25.7
93
$42,218.66
2010
11,799
$19,075,871.70
$4,162,161.45
21.8
94
$44,278.31
2009
11,799
$27,321,625.90
$4,071,927.88
14.9
95
$42,862.39
2008
11,799
$27,321,625.90
$4,013,054.88
14.7
95
$42,242.68
2007
11,799
$26,663,745.42
$3,708,797.04
13.9
92
$40,313.01
2006
11,799
$32,626,672.80
$3,582,009.60
11
88
$40,704.65
2005
11,799
$20,505,556.36
$3,476,168.88
17
147
$23,647.40
2004
11,000
$31,175,080.41
$3,329,006.25
10.7
108
$30,824.13
2003
11,000
$8,810,280.60
$3,092,288.76
35.1
85
$36,379.86
2002
11,000
$11,300,551.65
$3,101,639.85
27.4
85
$36,489.88
2001
11,000
$15,564,296
$2,705,937.69
17.4
85
$31,834.56

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

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