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Friday, April 26, 2024

The price of local government: City of Winchester

Budget 05

The City of Winchester budget was $10.10 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $14,464.42 per household.

That's an increase of 2.2 percent from 2014, when the city spent $9.88 million, or $14,155.42 per household.

Winchester has 698 households and a population of 1,568.

Since 2001, the City of Winchester budget has grown by 241.4 percent, from $2.96 million. The city population has fallen five percent over the same period, from 1,650.

Salaries accounted for 5.7 percent of city spending in 2015. Winchester property taxpayers paid $570,631.86 for 11 full-time employees and 59 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 16 full-time employees and 63 part-time employees, and spent $628,020.33.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
1,568
$10,096,164
$570,631.86
5.7
70
$8,151.88
2014
1,568
$9,880,481
$551,814.26
5.6
71
$7,772.03
2013
1,568
$9,927,996
$583,957.92
5.9
63
$9,269.17
2012
1,593
$13,644,807.60
$531,302.74
3.9
60
$8,855.04
2011
1,593
$11,680,578
$628,777.08
5.4
68
$9,246.72
2010
1,650
$11,912,908.50
$647,661.69
5.4
68
$9,524.43
2009
1,650
$6,765,875
$653,665.45
9.7
72
$9,078.68
2008
1,650
$7,028,503.95
$620,110.10
8.8
72
$8,612.64
2007
1,650
$6,471,954.45
$574,963.74
8.9
72
$7,985.60
2006
1,650
$5,884,662
$622,178.40
10.6
79
$7,875.67
2005
1,650
$6,130,665.40
$657,279.36
10.7
76
$8,648.41
2004
1,650
$6,676,678.80
$683,937.36
10.2
76
$8,999.17
2003
1,650
$6,405,062.40
$677,488.68
10.6
83
$8,162.51
2002
1,650
$4,129,677
$669,388.05
16.2
83
$8,064.91
2001
1,650
$2,956,925.80
$628,020.33
21.2
79
$7,949.62

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

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