That's a decrease of 4.7 percent from 2015, when the county spent $2.87 million.
Pope County has a population of 4,470.
Since 2001, the Pope County budget has fallen by 22.6 percent, from $3.53 million. The county population has grown 1.8 percent over the same period, from 4,390.
Salaries accounted for 30.4 percent of county spending in 2016. Pope County property taxpayers paid $830,096 for 19 full-time employees and 14 part-time employees.
In 2001, the county had 20 full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $906,818.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
4,470
$2,728,958
$830,096
30.4
33
$25,154
2015
4,470
$2,865,045
$802,374
28
36
$22,288
2014
4,470
$2,800,814
$795,398
28.4
34
$23,394
2013
4,470
$2,877,702
$864,523
30
35
$24,701
2012
4,470
$2,730,753
$856,017
31.3
32
$26,751
2011
4,470
$2,934,991
$818,682
27.9
31
$26,409
2010
3,991
$3,103,112
$864,851
27.9
27
$32,032
2009
4,390
$3,147,223
$887,439
28.2
27
$32,868
2008
4,390
$3,092,065
$868,016
28.1
27
$32,149
2007
4,390
$3,076,796
$605,648
19.7
27
$22,431
2006
4,390
$3,272,121
$893,743
27.3
27
$33,102
2005
4,390
$3,416,998
$945,572
27.7
27
$35,021
2004
4,390
$3,525,001
$917,199
26
27
$33,970
2003
4,390
$3,577,689
$997,842
27.9
27
$36,957
2002
4,390
$3,609,193
$941,290
26.1
31
$30,364
2001
4,390
$3,527,219
$906,818
25.7
22
$41,219
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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