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Thursday, May 15, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Gorham

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The Village of Gorham budget was $555,309 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $5,666 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $571,642, or $5,833 per household.

Gorham has 98 households and a population of 256.

Since 2001, the Village of Gorham budget has grown by 348.7 percent, from $123,753. The village population has fallen 14.7 percent over the same period, from 300.

Salaries accounted for 10.9 percent of village spending in 2017. Gorham property taxpayers paid $60,787 for one full-time employee and 15 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $50,150, or $4,559 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
256
$555,309
$60,787
10.9
16
$3,799
2016
256
$571,642
$69,343
12.1
16
$4,334
2015
256
$577,086
$67,800
11.7
16
$4,237
2014
256
$578,860
$66,993
11.6
16
$4,187
2013
256
$95,682
$65,049
68
16
$4,066
2012
256
$94,932
$54,854
57.8
16
$3,428
2011
256
$89,792
$48,687
54.2
16
$3,043
2010
256
$85,457
$61,691
72.2
16
$3,856
2009
256
$74,473
$66,718
89.6
16
$4,170
2008
256
$78,346
$93,595
119.5
16
$5,850
2007
256
$68,091
$65,185
95.7
16
$4,074
2006
256
$212,078
$78,618
37.1
16
$4,914
2005
256
$114,351
$67,830
59.3
16
$4,239
2004
256
$114,570
$61,360
53.6
13
$4,720
2003
256
$238,272
$63,946
26.8
11
$5,813
2002
300
$117,460
$57,851
49.3
11
$5,259
2001
300
$123,753
$50,150
40.5
11
$4,559

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

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