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Monday, May 12, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: City of Winchester

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The City of Winchester budget was $9.17 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $13,140 per household.

That's a decrease of 13.5 percent from 2016, when the city spent $10.60 million, or $15,189 per household.

Winchester has 698 households and a population of 1,503.

Since 2001, the City of Winchester budget has grown by 199.3 percent, from $3.06 million. The city population has fallen 8.9 percent over the same period, from 1,650.

Salaries accounted for 6.4 percent of city spending in 2017. Winchester property taxpayers paid $590,249 for 10 full-time employees and 59 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 16 full-time employees and 63 part-time employees, and spent $650,941.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,503
$9,171,687
$590,249
6.4
69
$8,554
2016
1,568
$10,601,850
$595,760
5.6
27
$22,065
2015
1,568
$10,492,092
$593,010
5.7
70
$8,472
2014
1,568
$10,168,262
$567,887
5.6
71
$7,998
2013
1,568
$10,309,842
$606,418
5.9
63
$9,626
2012
1,593
$14,030,981
$546,340
3.9
60
$9,106
2011
1,593
$12,221,346
$657,887
5.4
68
$9,675
2010
1,650
$12,234,879
$665,166
5.4
68
$9,782
2009
1,650
$7,005,375
$676,804
9.7
72
$9,400
2008
1,650
$7,277,301
$642,061
8.8
72
$8,918
2007
1,650
$6,748,534
$599,535
8.9
72
$8,327
2006
1,650
$6,129,856
$648,103
10.6
79
$8,204
2005
1,650
$6,427,311
$689,083
10.7
76
$9,067
2004
1,650
$6,935,465
$710,447
10.2
76
$9,348
2003
1,650
$6,599,155
$698,019
10.6
83
$8,410
2002
1,650
$4,282,628
$694,180
16.2
83
$8,364
2001
1,650
$3,064,843
$650,941
21.2
79
$8,240

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

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