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The price of local government: Village of Mechanicsburg

Budget 06

The Village of Mechanicsburg budget was $477,485.46 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2,252.29 per household.

That's a decrease of 59.2 percent from 2014, when the village spent $1.17 million, or $5,519 per household.

Mechanicsburg has 212 households and a population of 600.

Since 2001, the Village of Mechanicsburg budget has grown by 173.6 percent, from $174,524.30. The village population has grown 31.6 percent over the same period, from 456.

Salaries accounted for 3.7 percent of village spending in 2015. Mechanicsburg property taxpayers paid $17,692.92 for four part-time employees, or an average of $4,423.23 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $55,900.11.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
600
$477,485.46
$17,692.92
3.7
4
$4,423.23
2014
603
$1,170,028.50
$16,493.39
1.4
4
$4,123.34
2013
590
$486,853.12
$19,639.36
4
9
$2,182.15
2012
590
$424,000
$15,378.48
3.6
8
$1,922.31
2011
451
$417,355.20
$18,921.60
4.5
7
$2,703.08
2010
451
$413,243.01
$17,252.73
4.2
12
$1,437.72
2009
476
$318,577.51
$23,159.35
7.3
12
$1,929.94
2008
476
$304,130.46
$15,918.31
5.2
12
$1,326.52
2007
456
$276,196.05
$24,486.93
8.9
10
$2,448.69
2006
456
$172,143.60
$76,923.60
44.7
34
$2,262.45
2001
456
$174,524.30
$55,900.11
32
7
$7,985.73

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

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