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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Oakford

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The Village of Oakford budget was $241,067 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,913 per household.

That's a decrease of 0.8 percent from 2016, when the village spent $243,065, or $1,929 per household.

Oakford has 126 households and a population of 280.

Since 2001, the Village of Oakford budget has fallen by 67.2 percent, from $735,533. The village population has fallen 20.2 percent over the same period, from 351.

Salaries accounted for 7.9 percent of village spending in 2017. Oakford property taxpayers paid $19,149 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $1,596 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $19,410, or $1,765 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
280
$241,067
$19,149
7.9
12
$1,596
2016
309
$243,065
$18,925
7.8
11
$1,720
2015
309
$232,495
$17,474
7.5
14
$1,248
2014
309
$228,308
$18,079
7.9
11
$1,644
2013
309
$224,678
$17,049
7.6
11
$1,550
2012
309
$219,673
$17,209
7.8
11
$1,564
2011
309
$227,170
$19,048
8.4
11
$1,732
2010
309
$402,095
$19,813
4.9
11
$1,801
2009
309
$271,668
$19,685
7.2
11
$1,790
2008
309
$220,399
$17,988
8.2
11
$1,635
2007
309
$233,697
$19,646
8.4
11
$1,786
2006
309
$360,153
$19,501
5.4
11
$1,773
2005
309
$1,080,921
$22,715
2.1
13
$1,747
2004
309
$1,586,196
$21,961
1.4
13
$1,689
2003
309
$1,711,190
$21,148
1.2
13
$1,627
2002
309
$1,760,924
$21,903
1.2
13
$1,685
2001
351
$735,533
$19,410
2.6
11
$1,765

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

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