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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Spillertown

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The Village of Spillertown budget was $43,770.24 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $442.12 per household.

That's a decrease of 24.5 percent from 2014, when the village spent $57,981.79, or $585.67 per household.

Spillertown has 99 households and a population of 203.

Since 2001, the Village of Spillertown budget has grown by 70.9 percent, from $25,619. The village population has fallen 23.1 percent over the same period, from 264.

Salaries accounted for 5.7 percent of village spending in 2015. Spillertown property taxpayers paid $2,501.04 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $277.89 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had two part-time employees and spent $6,855.48, or $3,427.74 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
203
$43,770.24
$2,501.04
5.7
9
$277.89
2014
211
$57,981.79
$3,489.64
6
8
$436.20
2013
211
$37,789.44
$1,841.84
4.9
7
$263.12
2012
225
$76,631.64
$5,826.82
7.6
9
$647.42
2010
220
$159,984.30
$12,309.90
7.7
13
$946.91
2007
222
$84,653.01
$5,805.54
6.9
12
$483.79
2006
220
$61,413.60
$4,442.40
7.2
3
$1,480.80
2005
220
$63,460.72
$4,802.52
7.6
2
$2,401.26
2004
220
$66,019.62
$3,035.37
4.6
2
$1,517.68
2003
220
$30,373.20
$3,168
10.4
2
$1,584
2002
220
$25,245
$3,375
13.4
2
$1,687.50
2001
264
$25,619
$6,855.48
26.8
2
$3,427.74

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

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