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Friday, November 15, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Stronghurst

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The Village of Stronghurst budget was $1.23 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2,841.31 per household.

That's an increase of 6.6 percent from 2014, when the village spent $1.16 million, or $2,664.83 per household.

Stronghurst has 434 households and a population of 1,000.

Since 2001, the Village of Stronghurst budget has grown by 148.4 percent, from $496,438.68. The village population has grown 11.6 percent over the same period, from 896.

Salaries accounted for 11.5 percent of village spending in 2015. Stronghurst property taxpayers paid $141,788.16 for three full-time employees and 15 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had three full-time employees and five part-time employees, and spent $117,909.05.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
1,000
$1,233,129
$141,788.16
11.5
18
$7,877.12
2014
1,000
$1,156,535.50
$126,267.70
10.9
15
$8,417.84
2013
1,000
$1,118,312
$117,468
10.5
15
$7,831.20
2012
1,000
$1,058,304
$115,776.38
10.9
20
$5,788.81
2011
1,000
$902,988
$126,606.24
14
20
$6,330.31
2010
1,000
$657,235.44
$108,161.73
16.5
20
$5,408.08
2009
1,000
$669,077.52
$88,918.57
13.3
17
$5,230.50
2008
1,000
$662,156.27
$93,240.82
14.1
13
$7,172.37
2007
1,000
$586,145.43
$91,976.04
15.7
13
$7,075.07
2006
1,000
$543,372
$93,704.40
17.2
15
$6,246.96
2005
1,000
$506,924.40
$124,768.80
24.6
14
$8,912.05
2004
1,000
$527,364.90
$141,040.86
26.7
14
$10,074.34
2003
896
$539,629.20
$117,621.24
21.8
13
$9,047.78
2002
896
$551,893.50
$106,122.15
19.2
6
$17,687.02
2001
896
$496,438.68
$117,909.05
23.8
8
$14,738.63

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

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