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The price of local government: Village of Emington

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The Village of Emington budget was $88,578.84 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2,059.97 per household.

That's a decrease of 23.1 percent from 2014, when the village spent $115,197.26, or $2,679.01 per household.

Emington has 43 households and a population of 117.

Since 2001, the Village of Emington budget has grown by 11.3 percent, from $79,597. The village population has fallen 13.3 percent over the same period, from 135.

Salaries accounted for eight percent of village spending in 2015. Emington property taxpayers paid $7,083.90 for four part-time employees, or an average of $1,770.98 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had eight part-time employees and spent $8,307.68, or $1,038.46 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
117
$88,578.84
$7,083.90
8
4
$1,770.97
2014
117
$115,197.26
$7,307.85
6.3
4
$1,826.96
2013
117
$83,035.68
$7,118.80
8.6
4
$1,779.70
2012
117
$93,163.40
$7,531.30
8.1
4
$1,882.82
2011
110
$94,921.20
$7,468.20
7.9
8
$933.52
2010
110
$97,557.90
$7,992
8.2
8
$999
2009
110
$99,315.70
$8,085.15
8.1
8
$1,010.64
2008
120
$75,664.80
$9,085.20
12
2
$4,542.60
2007
120
$90,862.20
$9,381.06
10.3
2
$4,690.53
2006
120
$84,960
$9,864
11.6
2
$4,932
2005
120
$84,072
$7,268.88
8.6
2
$3,634.44
2004
120
$85,914
$7,411.05
8.6
2
$3,705.52
2003
120
$90,288
$7,220.40
8
2
$3,610.20
2002
135
$78,300
$7,485.75
9.6
8
$935.71
2001
135
$79,597
$8,307.68
10.4
8
$1,038.46

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

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