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Friday, April 19, 2024

The price of local government: City of Abingdon

Budget 02

The City of Abingdon budget was $2.14 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,766.93 per household.

That's a decrease of 8.5 percent from 2014, when the city spent $2.33 million, or $1,930.45 per household.

Abingdon has 1,209 households and a population of 3,319.

Since 2001, the City of Abingdon budget has fallen by 33.2 percent, from $3.20 million. The city population has fallen 7.6 percent over the same period, from 3,591.

Salaries accounted for 29 percent of city spending in 2015. Abingdon property taxpayers paid $619,066.56 for 17 full-time employees and 28 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 16 full-time employees and eight part-time employees, and spent $592,388.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
3,319
$2,136,212.52
$619,066.56
29
45
$13,757.03
2014
3,319
$2,333,915.11
$656,320.12
28.1
45
$14,584.89
2013
3,319
$2,220,362.56
$629,699.20
28.4
39
$16,146.13
2012
3,319
$2,179,531.72
$689,079.50
31.6
42
$16,406.65
2011
3,256
$2,147,239.80
$662,685.84
30.9
43
$15,411.29
2010
3,256
$2,873,249.43
$632,282.64
22
47
$13,452.82
2009
3,269
$2,768,381.35
$630,637.18
22.8
40
$15,765.92
2008
3,352
$2,747,766.76
$563,542.30
20.5
24
$23,480.92
2007
3,352
$1,738,045.53
$595,438.74
34.3
24
$24,809.94
2006
3,379
$1,734,168
$609,325.20
35.1
33
$18,464.40
2005
3,591
$2,042,675.56
$651,776.24
31.9
33
$19,750.79
2004
3,591
$2,059,771.38
$663,270.27
32.2
32
$20,727.19
2003
3,591
$2,436,725.28
$649,858.44
26.7
27
$24,068.83
2002
3,591
$2,381,200.20
$617,431.95
25.9
20
$30,871.59
2001
3,591
$3,199,118.51
$592,388
18.5
24
$24,682.83

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

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