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The price of local government: Village of Oakford

Budget 01

The Village of Oakford budget was $223,721.70 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,775.57 per household.

That's an increase of 0.8 percent from 2014, when the village spent $221,846.55, or $1,760.69 per household.

Oakford has 126 households and a population of 309.

Since 2001, the Village of Oakford budget has fallen by 68.5 percent, from $709,633.97. The village population has fallen 12 percent over the same period, from 351.

Salaries accounted for 7.5 percent of village spending in 2015. Oakford property taxpayers paid $16,814.70 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $1,201.05 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $18,726.53, or $1,702.41 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
309
$223,721.70
$16,814.70
7.5
14
$1,201.05
2014
309
$221,846.55
$17,567.68
7.9
11
$1,597.06
2013
309
$216,356.40
$16,417.44
7.6
11
$1,492.49
2012
309
$213,627.10
$16,735.28
7.8
11
$1,521.38
2011
309
$217,117.80
$18,205.56
8.4
11
$1,655.05
2010
309
$391,513.65
$19,291.80
4.9
11
$1,753.80
2009
309
$262,380.35
$19,012.25
7.2
11
$1,728.38
2008
309
$212,863.75
$17,372.62
8.2
11
$1,579.32
2007
309
$224,119.35
$18,840.51
8.4
11
$1,712.77
2006
309
$345,746.40
$18,721.20
5.4
11
$1,701.92
2005
309
$1,031,032.72
$21,666.52
2.1
13
$1,666.65
2004
309
$1,527,009.12
$21,141.81
1.4
13
$1,626.29
2003
309
$1,660,860.96
$20,526
1.2
13
$1,578.92
2002
309
$1,698,034.05
$21,120.75
1.2
13
$1,624.67
2001
351
$709,633.97
$18,726.53
2.6
11
$1,702.41

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

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