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The price of local government in 2016: Village of Waggoner

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The Village of Waggoner budget was $186,900 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $1,888 per household.

That's a decrease of 80.1 percent from 2015, when the village spent $938,948, or $9,484 per household.

Waggoner has 99 households and a population of 248.

Since 2001, the Village of Waggoner budget has fallen by 47.4 percent, from $355,000. The village population has grown 24 percent over the same period, from 200.

Salaries accounted for 14.6 percent of village spending in 2016. Waggoner property taxpayers paid $27,252 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $1,947 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and two part-time employees, and spent $17,949.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
248
$186,900
$27,252
14.6
14
$1,947
2015
237
$938,948
$23,991
2.6
14
$1,714
2014
237
$2,323,308
$27,342
1.2
12
$2,278
2013
238
$2,367,144
$24,794
1
13
$1,907
2012
238
$2,903,847
$25,561
0.9
13
$1,966
2011
238
$2,986,974
$22,473
0.8
14
$1,605
2010
245
$5,263,281
$11,576
0.2
11
$1,052
2009
245
$5,395,808
$25,581
0.5
12
$2,132
2008
245
$5,377,823
$24,910
0.5
12
$2,076
2007
245
$5,637,858
$24,781
0.4
12
$2,065
2006
245
$5,738,594
$22,409
0.4
13
$1,724
2005
200
$158,196
$20,641
13
3
$6,880
2004
200
$183,600
$26,347
14.4
3
$8,782
2003
200
$340,000
$17,544
5.2
3
$5,848
2002
200
$350,000
$18,312
5.2
3
$6,104
2001
200
$355,000
$17,949
5.1
3
$5,983

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

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