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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Cooksville

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The Village of Cooksville budget was $381,358 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $5,608 per household.

That's an increase of 6.7 percent from 2016, when the village spent $357,399, or $5,256 per household.

Cooksville has 68 households and a population of 182.

Since 2001, the Village of Cooksville budget has fallen by 8.2 percent, from $415,251. The village population has fallen 27.2 percent over the same period, from 250.

Salaries accounted for 5.3 percent of village spending in 2017. Cooksville property taxpayers paid $20,177 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $1,552 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $21,456, or $1,951 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
182
$381,358
$20,177
5.3
13
$1,552
2016
182
$357,399
$20,210
5.7
13
$1,555
2015
182
$370,343
$20,864
5.6
12
$1,739
2014
182
$374,901
$19,928
5.3
14
$1,423
2013
185
$761,702
$22,117
2.9
14
$1,580
2012
207
$768,755
$20,329
2.6
14
$1,452
2011
207
$796,966
$17,808
2.2
14
$1,272
2010
207
$768,223
$17,144
2.2
14
$1,225
2009
250
$2,608,234
$22,147
0.8
14
$1,582
2008
250
$461,717
$22,132
4.8
12
$1,844
2007
250
$481,449
$24,501
5.1
12
$2,042
2006
250
$372,288
$22,450
6
14
$1,604
2005
250
$387,179
$23,127
6
14
$1,652
2004
250
$399,092
$21,587
5.4
12
$1,799
2003
250
$399,677
$16
0
12
$1
2002
250
$411,432
$19,236
4.7
11
$1,749
2001
250
$415,251
$21,456
5.2
11
$1,951

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

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