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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Humboldt

Budget 10

The Village of Humboldt budget was $384,318.66 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,014.03 per household.

That's an increase of 0.5 percent from 2014, when the village spent $382,278.32, or $1,008.65 per household.

Humboldt has 379 households and a population of 437.

Since 2001, the Village of Humboldt budget has grown by 161.1 percent, from $147,214.72. The village population has fallen 9.1 percent over the same period, from 481.

Salaries accounted for 13.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Humboldt property taxpayers paid $50,590.98 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $6,323.87 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 13 part-time employees and spent $44,434.58, or $3,418.04 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
437
$384,318.66
$50,590.98
13.2
8
$6,323.87
2014
437
$382,278.32
$50,522.53
13.2
8
$6,315.31
2013
437
$363,539.28
$50,286.08
13.8
8
$6,285.76
2012
437
$330,647.92
$48,579.80
14.7
8
$6,072.47
2011
437
$364,690.08
$49,973.76
13.7
8
$6,246.72
2010
481
$406,947.09
$49,769.07
12.2
8
$6,221.13
2009
481
$456,284.96
$48,101.84
10.5
8
$6,012.73
2008
481
$389,049.96
$46,244.12
11.9
8
$5,780.51
2007
481
$345,326.67
$47,249.28
13.7
8
$5,906.16
2006
481
$381,438
$47,518.80
12.5
8
$5,939.85
2005
481
$405,941.28
$50,801.56
12.5
5
$10,160.31
2004
481
$321,486.06
$49,556.64
15.4
6
$8,259.44
2003
481
$289,994.76
$47,691.60
16.4
13
$3,668.58
2002
481
$282,109.50
$45,187.20
16
13
$3,475.93
2001
481
$147,214.72
$44,434.58
30.2
13
$3,418.04

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

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