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The price of local government: Village of Spaulding

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The Village of Spaulding budget was $270,300 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $8,719.35 per household.

That's an increase of 2.5 percent from 2014, when the village spent $263,680, or $8,505.81 per household.

Spaulding has 31 households and a population of 798.

Since 2001, the Village of Spaulding budget has grown by 198 percent, from $90,694. The village population has grown 42.5 percent over the same period, from 560.

Salaries accounted for 23.7 percent of village spending in 2015. Spaulding property taxpayers paid $64,077.42 for 19 part-time employees, or an average of $3,372.50 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $18,584.05, or $1,689.46 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
798
$270,300
$64,077.42
23.7
19
$3,372.49
2014
798
$263,680
$64,158.70
24.3
16
$4,009.91
2013
798
$159,640
$55,415.36
34.7
6
$9,235.89
2008
798
$242,950
$38,922.85
16
4
$9,730.71
2007
798
$298,350
$55,435.77
18.6
3
$18,478.59
2006
781
$116,280
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2005
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2001
560
$90,694
$18,584.05
20.5
11
$1,689.45

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

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