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The price of local government in 2016: Village of Melvin

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The Village of Melvin budget was $481,199 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $2,347 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.3 percent from 2015, when the village spent $492,455, or $2,402 per household.

Melvin has 205 households and a population of 452.

Since 2001, the Village of Melvin budget has fallen by 7.3 percent, from $519,303. The village population has fallen 9.6 percent over the same period, from 500.

Salaries accounted for 11.6 percent of village spending in 2016. Melvin property taxpayers paid $55,775 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $3,984 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had one part-time employee and spent $21,087, or $21,087 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
452
$481,199
$55,775
11.6
14
$3,984
2015
452
$492,455
$60,530
12.3
14
$4,324
2014
452
$630,085
$47,668
7.6
14
$3,405
2013
452
$455,868
$51,128
11.2
14
$3,652
2012
452
$460,479
$50,898
11.1
14
$3,636
2011
452
$522,758
$47,410
9.1
13
$3,647
2010
466
$497,895
$43,049
8.6
12
$3,587
2009
466
$501,843
$38,982
7.8
12
$3,249
2008
466
$489,379
$35,490
7.3
12
$2,957
2007
466
$668,716
$27,307
4.1
3
$9,102
2006
466
$522,423
$31,634
6.1
3
$10,545
2005
466
$1,311,596
$28,031
2.1
3
$9,344
2004
466
$2,585,600
$31,812
1.2
3
$10,604
2003
466
$585,194
$20,775
3.6
3
$6,925
2002
466
$505,170
$17,237
3.4
3
$5,746
2001
500
$519,303
$21,087
4.1
1
$21,087

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

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