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The price of local government in 2017: Village of St. Johns

Budget 05

The Village of St. Johns budget was $127,500 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,518 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $131,250, or $1,563 per household.

St. Johns has 84 households and a population of 195.

Since 2001, the Village of St. Johns budget has grown by 116.3 percent, from $58,943. The village population has fallen 10.6 percent over the same period, from 218.

Salaries accounted for 8.5 percent of village spending in 2017. St. Johns property taxpayers paid $10,878 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $1,360 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had three part-time employees and spent $6,751, or $2,250 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
195
$127,500
$10,878
8.5
8
$1,360
2016
219
$131,250
$15,104
11.5
9
$1,678
2015
219
$79,636
$17,696
22.2
9
$1,966
2014
195
$424,000
$12,897
3
9
$1,433
2013
219
$216,000
$11,462
5.3
9
$1,274
2012
250
$218,000
$11,598
5.3
10
$1,160
2011
215
$141,918
$15,437
10.9
6
$2,573
2010
215
$99,159
$17,073
17.2
6
$2,845
2009
215
$75,348
$16,772
22.3
11
$1,525
2008
213
$114,225
$11,608
10.2
11
$1,055
2007
218
$38,206
$8,278
21.7
3
$2,759
2006
218
$38,520
$7,125
18.5
5
$1,425
2005
218
$199,217
$7,497
3.8
7
$1,071
2004
218
$43,026
$6,230
14.5
7
$890
2003
218
$74,180
$6,725
9.1
3
$2,242
2002
218
$58,113
$6,236
10.7
3
$2,079
2001
218
$58,943
$6,751
11.5
3
$2,250

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

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