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Monday, December 23, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Strawn

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The Village of Strawn budget was $52,532.04 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,072.08 per household.

That's a decrease of 16.2 percent from 2014, when the village spent $62,669.32, or $1,278.97 per household.

Strawn has 49 households and a population of 104.

Since 2001, the Village of Strawn budget has fallen by 44.4 percent, from $94,419.03. The village population has fallen 30.7 percent over the same period, from 150.

Salaries accounted for 10.3 percent of village spending in 2015. Strawn property taxpayers paid $5,437.62 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $679.70 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had seven part-time employees and spent $5,160.79, or $737.26 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
104
$52,532.04
$5,437.62
10.4
8
$679.70
2014
104
$62,669.32
$3,524.66
5.6
8
$440.58
2013
104
$83,037.76
$5,902
7.1
8
$737.75
2012
104
$84,634.64
$6,582.60
7.8
9
$731.40
2011
104
$43,031.52
$5,749.92
13.4
10
$574.99
2010
104
$44,226.84
$6,460.20
14.6
10
$646.02
2009
104
$56,238.97
$6,068.10
10.8
9
$674.23
2008
104
$58,633.44
$6,610.50
11.3
9
$734.50
2007
104
$44,189.73
$6,797.70
15.4
11
$617.97
2006
104
$45,322.80
$5,700
12.6
11
$518.18
2005
104
$63,726.08
$6,218.60
9.8
11
$565.32
2004
104
$39,434.01
$6,579
16.7
10
$657.90
2003
104
$50,251.08
$6,204
12.3
10
$620.40
2002
104
$48,558.15
$5,163.75
10.6
7
$737.67
2001
150
$94,419.03
$5,160.79
5.5
7
$737.25

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

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