Making these boxes became quite a cottage industry in the Bavarian regions, often with the boxes being constructed by one family and then sent to a schachtelmaler, or box-painter, for decoration. 1. This top of this stunning box is decorated with the figures of a gentleman and two young women.
Municipal Budgets Per Capita. Excluding police and firefighter pensions, towns and cities in Lake County spent, on average, $359 per resident in 2003. (Data for Lake Station were not available at the time the analysis was conducted.) Two cities exceeded this average by wide margins (see Figure 1).
Most police and firefighters, as shown above, averaged $53,478 and $69,499, respectively. The 30-34 year service category, which would include most ranking officers, averaged $87,263. The average for all new police and fire retirees in 2011 was $68,162. In the police and fire system, only 114 out of 880 new retirees in fiscal 2011 had more than 35 years of service; based on the data in the state report, their weighted average pension was $97,793.