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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Okawville

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The Village of Okawville budget was $2.04 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $3,452.27 per household.

That's an increase of 14.2 percent from 2014, when the village spent $1.78 million, or $3,023.40 per household.

Okawville has 590 households and a population of 1,434.

Since 2001, the Village of Okawville budget has grown by 232.8 percent, from $612,047.50. The village population has grown 5.8 percent over the same period, from 1,355.

Salaries accounted for 16.8 percent of village spending in 2015. Okawville property taxpayers paid $342,573.12 for seven full-time employees and 25 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had seven full-time employees and 24 part-time employees, and spent $304,623.61.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
1,434
$2,036,838
$342,573.12
16.8
32
$10,705.41
2014
1,434
$1,783,805.50
$321,386.78
18
34
$9,452.55
2013
1,434
$1,772,160
$335,135.84
18.9
36
$9,309.32
2012
1,434
$1,843,128
$334,776.62
18.2
36
$9,299.35
2011
1,434
$2,018,401.20
$333,636.84
16.5
36
$9,267.69
2010
1,372
$2,026,971
$343,478.40
16.9
36
$9,541.06
2009
1,372
$1,366,396
$353,118.22
25.8
35
$10,089.09
2008
1,372
$1,297,889.75
$498,748.10
38.4
40
$12,468.70
2007
1,372
$1,382,589
$526,717.62
38.1
53
$9,938.06
2006
1,355
$644,286
$293,857.20
45.6
27
$10,883.60
2005
1,378
$665,842.80
$304,234
45.7
31
$9,814
2004
1,355
$861,397.50
$343,695.99
39.9
31
$11,086.96
2003
1,355
$821,502
$331,384.68
40.3
31
$10,689.82
2002
1,355
$881,820
$342,948.60
38.9
31
$11,062.85
2001
1,355
$612,047.50
$304,623.61
49.8
31
$9,826.56

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

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