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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Tilden

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The Village of Tilden budget was $767,193 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,549 per household.

That's an increase of 133 percent from 2016, when the village spent $329,228, or $1,094 per household.

Tilden has 301 households and a population of 912.

Since 2001, the Village of Tilden budget has fallen by 59 percent, from $1.87 million. The village population has fallen 7.4 percent over the same period, from 985.

Salaries accounted for 25 percent of village spending in 2017. Tilden property taxpayers paid $191,461 for five full-time employees and 15 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had five full-time employees and five part-time employees, and spent $206,851.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
912
$767,193
$191,461
25
20
$9,573
2016
912
$329,228
$229,731
69.8
20
$11,487
2015
912
$815,110
$243,176
29.8
20
$12,159
2014
912
$679,386
$214,891
31.6
20
$10,745
2013
912
$683,111
$207,148
30.3
17
$12,185
2012
912
$675,401
$222,024
32.9
17
$13,060
2011
912
$680,619
$217,252
31.9
17
$12,780
2010
922
$686,950
$183,656
26.7
13
$14,127
2009
922
$705,028
$188,489
26.7
13
$14,499
2008
922
$704,755
$206,355
29.3
13
$15,873
2007
922
$721,819
$210,842
29.2
12
$17,570
2006
922
$866,900
$191,551
22.1
12
$15,963
2005
922
$1,437,305
$186,430
13
12
$15,536
2004
922
$1,365,410
$158,024
11.6
12
$13,169
2003
917
$1,225,956
$168,588
13.8
13
$12,968
2002
919
$1,856,938
$208,876
11.2
12
$17,406
2001
985
$1,873,365
$206,851
11
10
$20,685

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

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