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Thursday, April 10, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Strawn

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The Village of Strawn budget was $42,732 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $872 per household.

That's a decrease of 30.5 percent from 2016, when the village spent $61,497, or $1,255 per household.

Strawn has 49 households and a population of 104.

Since 2001, the Village of Strawn budget has fallen by 56.3 percent, from $97,865. The village population has fallen 30.7 percent over the same period, from 150.

Salaries accounted for 13.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Strawn property taxpayers paid $5,651 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $807 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had seven part-time employees and spent $5,349, or $764 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
104
$42,732
$5,651
13.2
7
$807
2016
104
$61,497
$5,738
9.3
8
$717
2015
104
$54,592
$5,651
10.4
8
$706
2014
104
$64,495
$3,627
5.6
8
$453
2013
104
$86,232
$6,129
7.1
8
$766
2012
104
$87,030
$6,769
7.8
9
$752
2011
104
$45,024
$6,016
13.4
10
$602
2010
104
$45,422
$6,635
14.6
10
$663
2009
104
$58,230
$6,283
10.8
9
$698
2008
104
$60,709
$6,845
11.3
9
$761
2007
104
$46,078
$7,088
15.4
11
$644
2006
104
$47,211
$5,938
12.6
11
$540
2005
104
$66,810
$6,520
9.8
11
$593
2004
104
$40,962
$6,834
16.7
10
$683
2003
104
$51,774
$6,392
12.3
10
$639
2002
104
$50,357
$5,355
10.6
7
$765
2001
150
$97,865
$5,349
5.5
7
$764

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

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