Special thanks for the Brigantine Taxpayers Association for gathering this public information.
All taxpayers, especially non-voting 2nd home-owners, should evaluate Brigantine’s 2023 budget, its allocation and expenditure of taxes and other revenue.
US Census Bureau’s Estimated Brigantine Population
- 2023 – 7,615 residents
- 2020 – 7,716 residents
- 2010 – 9,450 residents
Brigantine School Enrollment: 400 students at taxpayer cost of $39,000 per student.
The 2023 Brigantine salary chart below includes the base salary. Not included are:
- Employee group health-insurance (budgeted $1.9 million)
- Overtime ( Ask Tigger Platt )
- Retirement / pension amounts.
- Total longevity payments of $259,000 (union contracts)
- 33 employees get stipends
- Hourly rates listed but not totaled.
45 Brigantine employees make $100,000 or more.
2023 SALARIES – BRIGANTINE MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES
2023 BRIGANTINE PUBLIC SAFETY
- 35 police officers
- 34 firefighters/EMTs
- 175 non-seasonal & hourly-rate positions.
The newly-appointed Brigantine City Manager (Tiger Platt) has a salary of $150,000. That’s $50,000 more than his immediate predecessor, Jim Bennett.
Listed payroll is $9.8 million. City Manager Tiger Platt’s 2023 budget report shows total salary and wages of $13.5 million.
Total city budget of Brigantine is up by $773,000. Higher Brigantine taxes will need to follow.
Local purpose tax increased 3.7 cents. 2023 rate is 68.3 cents per $100 of assessed value.
Brigantine’s 3-part property tax bill includes county and school taxes. NOTE: These figures don’t include the separate water and sewer budget.
2023 CITY BUDGET OF BRIGANTINE
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This is a very helpful report but unfortunately most of the data is too compressed to view. If it would be possible to provide a link to see a larger sized report would be great!