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The price of local government in 2017: City of Tuscola

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The City of Tuscola budget was $53.26 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $28,697 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the city spent $54.83 million, or $29,541 per household.

Tuscola has 1,856 households and a population of 4,480.

Since 2001, the City of Tuscola budget has grown by 162.2 percent, from $20.31 million. The city population has grown 0.7 percent over the same period, from 4,448.

Salaries accounted for 2.9 percent of city spending in 2017. Tuscola property taxpayers paid $1.55 million for 26 full-time employees and 70 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 27 full-time employees and 77 part-time employees, and spent $1.50 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
4,480
$53,262,360
$1,552,162
2.9
96
$16,168
2016
4,480
$54,828,900
$1,610,355
2.9
73
$22,060
2015
4,480
$54,695,767
$1,597,319
2.9
73
$21,881
2014
4,480
$61,053,117
$1,643,417
2.7
73
$22,513
2013
4,480
$54,535,243
$1,544,601
2.8
73
$21,159
2012
4,480
$48,512,011
$1,479,196
3
73
$20,263
2011
4,480
$38,675,945
$1,422,298
3.7
71
$20,032
2010
4,448
$40,806,870
$1,422,442
3.5
83
$17,138
2009
4,448
$38,726,445
$1,468,300
3.8
129
$11,382
2008
4,448
$39,586,667
$1,425,478
3.6
129
$11,050
2007
4,448
$27,832,965
$1,368,574
4.9
129
$10,609
2006
4,448
$22,255,589
$1,495,896
6.7
129
$11,596
2005
4,448
$18,053,096
$1,328,148
7.4
129
$10,296
2004
4,448
$13,144,706
$1,300,100
9.9
129
$10,078
2003
4,448
$15,440,398
$1,455,613
9.4
129
$11,284
2002
4,448
$12,467,889
$1,488,031
11.9
128
$11,625
2001
4,448
$20,310,509
$1,497,239
7.4
104
$14,397

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

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