That's an increase of 21.1 percent from 2015, when the city spent $238,500, or $1,741 per household.
Orient has 137 households and a population of 358.
Since 2003, the City of Orient budget has fallen by 5.9 percent, from $306,972. The city population has grown 16.6 percent over the same period, from 307.
Salaries accounted for 15.8 percent of city spending in 2016. Orient property taxpayers paid $45,663 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $4,151 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2003, the city had 18 part-time employees and spent $58,348, or $3,242 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
358
$288,750
$45,663
15.8
11
$4,151
2015
358
$238,500
$48,651
20.4
10
$4,865
2014
358
$312,434
$51,371
16.4
10
$5,137
2013
358
$549,899
$41,368
7.5
10
$4,137
2012
358
$272,500
$42,297
15.5
11
$3,845
2011
307
$269,695
$40,176
14.9
9
$4,464
2010
307
$275,524
$41,424
15
9
$4,603
2009
307
$321,658
$43,570
13.5
8
$5,446
2008
307
$326,272
$47,926
14.7
9
$5,325
2007
307
$367,538
$41,379
11.3
8
$5,172
2006
307
$227,728
$34,515
15.2
6
$5,753
2005
307
$241,973
$36,486
15.1
11
$3,317
2004
307
$280,352
$37,464
13.4
16
$2,341
2003
307
$306,972
$58,348
19
18
$3,242
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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