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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Latham

Budget 09

The Village of Latham budget was $292,230 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,231 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $300,825, or $2,296 per household.

Latham has 131 households and a population of 378.

Since 2001, the Village of Latham budget has fallen by 16 percent, from $348,042. The village population has fallen one percent over the same period, from 382.

Salaries accounted for nine percent of village spending in 2017. Latham property taxpayers paid $26,398 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $2,031 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had four part-time employees and spent $40,592, or $10,148 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
378
$292,230
$26,398
9
13
$2,031
2016
378
$300,825
$25,626
8.5
15
$1,708
2015
378
$390,610
$25,435
6.5
15
$1,696
2014
378
$303,690
$35,313
11.6
15
$2,354
2013
378
$397,980
$25,879
6.5
15
$1,725
2012
378
$401,665
$28,686
7.1
15
$1,912
2011
371
$416,405
$30,491
7.3
15
$2,033
2010
371
$420,090
$31,251
7.4
15
$2,083
2009
371
$431,145
$28,900
6.7
17
$1,700
2008
371
$455,351
$27,261
6
16
$1,704
2007
371
$368,671
$27,133
7.4
13
$2,087
2006
371
$252,931
$28,661
11.3
18
$1,592
2005
371
$254,800
$34,057
13.4
17
$2,003
2004
371
$455,466
$38,399
8.4
23
$1,670
2003
371
$440,368
$36,755
8.3
22
$1,671
2002
371
$343,140
$43,666
12.7
24
$1,819
2001
382
$348,042
$40,592
11.7
4
$10,148

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

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