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Friday, July 18, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Medora

Budget 13

The Village of Medora budget was $416,364 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2,538.80 per household.

That's a decrease of 1.8 percent from 2014, when the village spent $424,051, or $2,585.68 per household.

Medora has 164 households and a population of 500.

Since 2001, the Village of Medora budget has fallen by 35.1 percent, from $641,982. The village population has fallen 2.3 percent over the same period, from 512.

Salaries accounted for 13.9 percent of village spending in 2015. Medora property taxpayers paid $58,006.38 for six part-time employees, or an average of $9,667.73 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had four full-time employees and spent $50,584.51, or $12,646.13 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
500
$416,364
$58,006.38
13.9
6
$9,667.73
2014
500
$424,051
$52,969.81
12.5
6
$8,828.30
2013
500
$537,066.40
$54,579.20
10.2
6
$9,096.53
2012
500
$579,910.10
$62,607.84
10.8
6
$10,434.64
2011
500
$596,467.80
$66,049.56
11.1
4
$16,512.39
2010
500
$558,368.85
$86,612.19
15.5
5
$17,322.43
2009
500
$568,118.80
$81,397.29
14.3
5
$16,279.45
2008
500
$568,118.80
$79,588.16
14
5
$15,917.63
2007
500
$587,995.20
$77,652.90
13.2
5
$15,530.58
2006
500
$603,312
$78,854.40
13.1
5
$15,770.88
2005
515
$612,262.40
$69,805.80
11.4
5
$13,961.16
2004
515
$614,762.40
$73,318.44
11.9
5
$14,663.68
2003
515
$552,288
$74,116.68
13.4
5
$14,823.33
2002
515
$690,687
$79,683.75
11.5
5
$15,936.75
2001
512
$641,982
$50,584.51
7.9
4
$12,646.12

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

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