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Friday, November 15, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Butler

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The Village of Butler budget was $285,822.36 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $4,203.27 per household.

That's an increase of 96.9 percent from 2014, when the village spent $145,197.04, or $2,135.25 per household.

Butler has 68 households and a population of 180.

Since 2001, the Village of Butler budget has grown by 159 percent, from $110,374.05. The village population has fallen 8.6 percent over the same period, from 197.

Salaries accounted for 8.3 percent of village spending in 2015. Butler property taxpayers paid $23,872.08 for six part-time employees, or an average of $3,978.68 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had three part-time employees and spent $13,397.23, or $4,465.74 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
180
$285,822.36
$23,872.08
8.4
6
$3,978.68
2014
180
$145,197.04
$20,314.69
14
6
$3,385.78
2013
180
$141,531.52
$18,528.64
13.1
5
$3,705.72
2012
180
$319,469.16
$19,587.74
6.1
5
$3,917.54
2011
180
$634,348.80
$20,896.92
3.3
5
$4,179.38
2010
156
$103,651.80
$19,469.40
18.8
5
$3,893.88
2009
156
$102,206.24
$21,163.77
20.7
5
$4,232.75
2008
156
$109,664.24
$17,611.05
16.1
5
$3,522.21
2007
156
$106,526.16
$17,022.33
16
5
$3,404.46
2006
156
$113,160
$16,302
14.4
5
$3,260.40
2005
156
$109,550.28
$16,008.40
14.6
3
$5,336.13
2004
156
$105,007.29
$16,767.42
16
3
$5,589.14
2003
156
$104,274.72
$16,065.72
15.4
3
$5,355.24
2002
156
$98,788.95
$12,845.25
13
3
$4,281.75
2001
197
$110,374.05
$13,397.23
12.1
3
$4,465.74

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

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