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Thursday, July 17, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Emington

Budget 09

The Village of Emington budget was $58,958 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,371 per household.

That's an increase of 61.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $36,561, or $850 per household.

Emington has 43 households and a population of 112.

Since 2001, the Village of Emington budget has fallen by 28.5 percent, from $82,502. The village population has fallen 17 percent over the same period, from 135.

Salaries accounted for 19 percent of village spending in 2017. Emington property taxpayers paid $11,219 for three part-time employees, or an average of $3,740 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had eight part-time employees and spent $8,611, or $1,076 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
112
$58,958
$11,219
19
3
$3,740
2016
113
$36,561
$8,096
22.1
3
$2,699
2015
117
$92,053
$7,362
8
4
$1,840
2014
117
$118,553
$7,521
6.3
4
$1,880
2013
117
$86,229
$7,393
8.6
4
$1,848
2012
117
$95,800
$7,744
8.1
4
$1,936
2011
110
$99,316
$7,814
7.9
8
$977
2010
110
$100,195
$8,208
8.2
8
$1,026
2009
110
$102,831
$8,371
8.1
8
$1,046
2008
120
$78,343
$9,407
12
2
$4,703
2007
120
$94,745
$9,782
10.3
2
$4,891
2006
120
$88,500
$10,275
11.6
2
$5,138
2005
120
$88,140
$7,621
8.6
2
$3,810
2004
120
$89,244
$7,698
8.6
2
$3,849
2003
120
$93,024
$7,439
8
2
$3,720
2002
135
$81,200
$7,763
9.6
8
$970
2001
135
$82,502
$8,611
10.4
8
$1,076

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

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