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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

The price of local government in 2016: Village of Schram City

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The Village of Schram City budget was $584,325 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $2,486 per household.

That's a decrease of 8.9 percent from 2015, when the city spent $641,300, or $2,729 per household.

Schram has 235 households and a population of 586.

Since 2001, the Village of Schram City budget has fallen by 53.5 percent, from $1.26 million. The city population has fallen 10.3 percent over the same period, from 653.

Salaries accounted for 17.2 percent of city spending in 2016. Schram property taxpayers paid $100,675 for three full-time employees and three part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had three full-time employees and four part-time employees, and spent $120,855.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
586
$584,325
$100,675
17.2
6
$16,779
2015
586
$641,300
$88,770
13.8
6
$14,795
2014
586
$676,280
$92,273
13.6
6
$15,379
2013
586
$1,420,200
$82,382
5.8
6
$13,730
2012
586
$1,304,730
$88,813
6.8
6
$14,802
2011
586
$491,550
$93,210
19
6
$15,535
2010
653
$613,320
$98,642
16.1
6
$16,440
2009
653
$570,960
$98,044
17.2
6
$16,341
2008
653
$626,652
$93,414
14.9
6
$15,569
2007
653
$710,040
$93,003
13.1
6
$15,501
2006
653
$725,000
$93,391
12.9
6
$15,565
2005
653
$639,600
$90,580
14.2
6
$15,097
2004
653
$659,950
$88,616
13.4
6
$14,769
2003
653
$803,080
$90,145
11.2
6
$15,024
2002
653
$1,429,260
$116,627
8.2
9
$12,959
2001
653
$1,256,274
$120,855
9.6
7
$17,265

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

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