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Saturday, September 13, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Leonore

Budget 02

The Village of Leonore budget was $187,578 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $3,828 per household.

That's a decrease of 4.8 percent from 2016, when the village spent $196,980, or $4,020 per household.

Leonore has 49 households and a population of 160.

Since 2001, the Village of Leonore budget has grown by 288.5 percent, from $48,280. The village population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 7.4 percent of village spending in 2017. Leonore property taxpayers paid $13,934 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $1,267 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $10,957, or $996 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
160
$187,578
$13,934
7.4
11
$1,267
2016
160
$196,980
$12,987
6.6
11
$1,181
2015
160
$143,551
$12,709
8.9
11
$1,155
2014
160
$74,193
$12,492
16.8
11
$1,136
2013
160
$74,844
$10,060
13.4
11
$915
2012
160
$75,537
$9,491
12.6
11
$863
2011
160
$75,823
$10,043
13.2
11
$913
2010
160
$74,841
$10,369
13.9
11
$943
2009
160
$41,769
$9,706
23.2
11
$882
2008
160
$41,740
$9,823
23.5
11
$893
2007
160
$42,853
$10,274
24
11
$934
2006
160
$40,625
$10,370
25.5
11
$943
2005
160
$45,500
$10,070
22.1
11
$915
2004
160
$40,669
$10,480
25.8
11
$953
2003
160
$68,000
$10,433
15.3
11
$948
2002
160
$49,000
$10,872
22.2
11
$988
2001
160
$48,280
$10,957
22.7
11
$996

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

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