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Monday, January 13, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Parkersburg

Budget 09

The Village of Parkersburg budget was $1.30 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $13,982.55 per household.

That's an increase of 40.4 percent from 2014, when the village spent $926,073, or $9,957.77 per household.

Parkersburg has 93 households and a population of 230.

Since 2001, the Village of Parkersburg budget has grown by 313.7 percent, from $314,327.32. The village population has fallen 1.7 percent over the same period, from 234.

Salaries accounted for 1.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Parkersburg property taxpayers paid $15,243.90 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $1,524.39 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 12 part-time employees and spent $17,611.35, or $1,467.61 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
230
$1,300,377.60
$15,243.90
1.2
10
$1,524.39
2014
230
$926,073
$13,395.15
1.4
10
$1,339.51
2013
230
$935,064
$18,525.52
2
10
$1,852.55
2012
230
$804,190.20
$15,604.26
1.9
4
$3,901.06
2011
230
$754,552.80
$13,289.40
1.8
4
$3,322.35
2010
230
$700,143.60
$13,653
2
4
$3,413.25
2009
230
$662,078.30
$14,440.27
2.2
10
$1,444.02
2008
230
$631,805.60
$14,407.50
2.3
10
$1,440.75
2007
230
$654,170.40
$14,727.96
2.3
10
$1,472.79
2006
230
$499,044
$15,241.20
3.1
10
$1,524.12
2005
250
$171,076.60
$15,290.44
8.9
4
$3,822.61
2004
250
$176,362.35
$16,195.95
9.2
12
$1,349.66
2003
250
$175,764.60
$16,539.60
9.4
12
$1,378.30
2002
234
$179,280
$17,253
9.6
11
$1,568.45
2001
234
$314,327.32
$17,611.35
5.6
12
$1,467.61

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

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