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Thursday, April 18, 2024

The price of local government: Village of West Salem

Budget 12

The Village of West Salem budget was $845,809.50 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2,185.55 per household.

That's an increase of 1.4 percent from 2014, when the village spent $834,403, or $2,156.08 per household.

West Salem has 387 households and a population of 892.

Since 2001, the Village of West Salem budget has fallen by 27.8 percent, from $1.17 million. The village population has fallen 14.4 percent over the same period, from 1,042.

Salaries accounted for 21.1 percent of village spending in 2015. West Salem property taxpayers paid $178,694.82 for four full-time employees and 20 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had four full-time employees and four part-time employees, and spent $248,826.25.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
892
$845,809.50
$178,694.82
21.1
24
$7,445.61
2014
892
$834,403
$174,365.61
20.9
24
$7,265.23
2013
898
$812,809.92
$169,317.20
20.8
24
$7,054.88
2012
897
$726,982.98
$171,731.66
23.6
24
$7,155.48
2011
1,001
$682,020
$181,522.08
26.6
24
$7,563.42
2010
1,001
$914,732.13
$153,205.53
16.7
24
$6,383.56
2009
1,001
$801,186.95
$177,132.02
22.1
24
$7,380.50
2008
1,001
$820,945
$176,060.78
21.4
24
$7,335.86
2007
1,001
$813,559.50
$193,556.61
23.8
24
$8,064.85
2006
1,001
$792,050.40
$191,346
24.2
24
$7,972.74
2005
1,001
$760,665.60
$181,769.12
23.9
24
$7,573.71
2004
1,001
$759,732.60
$216,819.33
28.5
8
$27,102.41
2003
1,001
$1,078,836
$229,969.08
21.3
8
$28,746.13
2002
1,001
$806,442.75
$241,820.10
30
8
$30,227.51
2001
1,042
$1,171,624
$248,826.25
21.2
8
$31,103.28

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

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