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The price of local government: Village of Sherman

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The Village of Sherman budget was $6.43 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $5,086.62 per household.

That's an increase of 44.4 percent from 2014, when the village spent $4.45 million, or $3,522.54 per household.

Sherman has 1,264 households and a population of 4,148.

Since 2001, the Village of Sherman budget has grown by 93.5 percent, from $3.32 million. The village population has grown 65.9 percent over the same period, from 2,500.

Salaries accounted for 10.9 percent of village spending in 2015. Sherman property taxpayers paid $703,138.02 for 13 full-time employees and 16 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had eight full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $378,839.25.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
4,148
$6,429,491.46
$703,138.02
10.9
29
$24,246.13
2014
4,148
$4,452,490.18
$717,095.27
16.1
27
$26,559.08
2013
4,148
$4,458,402
$704,328.56
15.8
25
$28,173.14
2012
4,148
$2,993,469.68
$674,112.30
22.5
23
$29,309.23
2010
4,148
$3,677,155.83
$632,388.09
17.2
28
$22,585.28
2008
3,400
$5,065,316.53
$479,855.63
9.5
23
$20,863.28
2007
3,400
$3,488,921.28
$545,931.36
15.6
23
$23,736.14
2006
2,871
$3,547,768.80
$518,194.80
14.6
16
$32,387.17
2005
2,871
$3,004,181.48
$485,881.60
16.2
15
$32,392.10
2004
2,600
$3,520,865.37
$526,140.69
14.9
12
$43,845.05
2003
2,600
$3,257,509.20
$463,432.20
14.2
11
$42,130.20
2002
2,600
$3,331,395
$420,183.45
12.6
10
$42,018.34
2001
2,500
$3,321,978.74
$378,839.25
11.4
10
$37,883.92

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

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