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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: City of Warsaw

Budget 08

The City of Warsaw budget was $1.14 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,591 per household.

That's an increase of 1.5 percent from 2016, when the city spent $1.13 million, or $1,568 per household.

Warsaw has 718 households and a population of 1,607.

Since 2001, the City of Warsaw budget has fallen by 73.7 percent, from $4.34 million. The city population has fallen 10.4 percent over the same period, from 1,793.

Salaries accounted for 27.2 percent of city spending in 2017. Warsaw property taxpayers paid $310,900 for six full-time employees and 17 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had five full-time employees and 16 part-time employees, and spent $238,519.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,607
$1,142,332
$310,900
27.2
23
$13,517
2016
1,793
$1,125,730
$314,302
27.9
22
$14,286
2015
1,793
$1,254,017
$352,011
28.1
22
$16,001
2014
1,793
$1,716,381
$350,438
20.4
30
$11,681
2013
1,793
$2,224,189
$351,050
15.8
30
$11,702
2012
1,793
$1,330,786
$347,770
26.1
31
$11,218
2011
1,793
$1,481,548
$376,824
25.4
17
$22,166
2010
1,793
$1,311,255
$436,818
33.3
21
$20,801
2009
1,800
$2,533,401
$464,424
18.3
30
$15,481
2008
1,800
$2,274,973
$431,731
19
30
$14,391
2007
1,800
$2,478,625
$395,853
16
32
$12,370
2006
1,793
$3,755,575
$391,611
10.4
38
$10,306
2005
1,793
$3,860,640
$358,744
9.3
32
$11,211
2004
1,793
$4,057,247
$328,904
8.1
27
$12,182
2003
1,793
$3,792,871
$283,212
7.5
26
$10,893
2002
1,793
$3,868,808
$249,598
6.5
17
$14,682
2001
1,793
$4,343,505
$238,519
5.5
21
$11,358

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

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