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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The price of local government: City of Greenville

Budget 06

The City of Greenville budget was $40.13 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $16,670.61 per household.

That's a decrease of 10.4 percent from 2014, when the city spent $44.77 million, or $18,598.79 per household.

Greenville has 2,407 households and a population of 7,000.

Since 2001, the City of Greenville budget has grown by 111.7 percent, from $18.95 million. The city population has grown 0.6 percent over the same period, from 6,955.

Salaries accounted for 5.6 percent of city spending in 2015. Greenville property taxpayers paid $2.23 million for 41 full-time employees and 21 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 40 full-time employees and 11 part-time employees, and spent $1.75 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
7,000
$40,126,155.36
$2,231,881.38
5.6
62
$35,998.08
2014
7,000
$44,767,282.43
$2,270,152.96
5.1
74
$30,677.74
2013
7,000
$28,773,909.84
$2,195,797.76
7.6
59
$37,216.91
2012
7,000
$27,136,086.92
$2,212,527.40
8.2
59
$37,500.46
2011
7,284
$18,890,126.64
$2,195,219.88
11.6
61
$35,987.21
2010
7,284
$52,772,282.67
$2,295,431.16
4.3
55
$41,735.11
2009
7,379
$35,554,069.14
$2,189,106.06
6.2
55
$39,801.92
2008
7,163
$30,808,203.61
$2,152,978.83
7
55
$39,145.06
2007
7,134
$22,302,076.68
$2,126,893.86
9.5
55
$38,670.79
2006
7,067
$18,589,320
$2,028,418.80
10.9
55
$36,880.34
2005
7,095
$18,513,522.40
$2,048,856.96
11.1
55
$37,251.94
2004
6,955
$18,069,366.69
$2,066,151.72
11.4
54
$38,262.06
2003
6,955
$26,582,391
$1,895,093.64
7.1
54
$35,094.32
2002
6,955
$20,783,969.55
$1,795,942.80
8.6
54
$33,258.20
2001
6,955
$18,954,148.65
$1,745,206.01
9.2
51
$34,219.72

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

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