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Thursday, October 31, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: City of Wamac

Budget 07

The City of Wamac budget was $1 million for its 2016 fiscal year, or $4,886 per household.

That's a decrease of 0.1 percent from 2015, when the city spent $1 million, or $4,891 per household.

Wamac has 205 households and a population of 1,185.

Since 2001, the City of Wamac budget has fallen by 19.5 percent, from $1.24 million. The city population has fallen 21.1 percent over the same period, from 1,501.

Salaries accounted for 29.3 percent of city spending in 2016. Wamac property taxpayers paid $293,123 for four full-time employees and 24 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had five full-time employees and 24 part-time employees, and spent $242,892.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,185
$1,001,539
$293,123
29.3
28
$10,469
2015
1,185
$1,002,634
$271,234
27.1
22
$12,329
2014
1,185
$961,235
$275,999
28.7
30
$9,200
2013
1,185
$1,605,604
$256,713
16
26
$9,874
2012
1,185
$1,255,860
$242,571
19.3
29
$8,365
2011
1,378
$1,011,762
$252,778
25
27
$9,362
2010
1,378
$1,047,603
$259,678
24.8
26
$9,988
2009
1,378
$1,009,348
$256,510
25.4
24
$10,688
2008
1,378
$1,007,819
$250,937
24.9
27
$9,294
2007
1,378
$994,379
$256,939
25.8
23
$11,171
2006
1,378
$1,032,188
$255,783
24.8
22
$11,626
2005
1,378
$1,038,553
$267,695
25.8
23
$11,639
2004
1,378
$1,098,700
$276,993
25.2
20
$13,850
2003
1,378
$1,101,906
$264,349
24
23
$11,493
2002
1,378
$1,108,065
$264,335
23.9
29
$9,115
2001
1,501
$1,244,062
$242,892
19.5
29
$8,376

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

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