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Sunday, April 20, 2025

The price of local government in 2016: City of Witt

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The City of Witt budget was $2.39 million for its 2016 fiscal year, or $1.19 million per household.

That's an increase of 39.8 percent from 2015, when the city spent $1.71 million, or $853,857 per household.

Witt has 2 households and a population of 903.

Since 2001, the City of Witt budget has grown by 101.3 percent, from $1.19 million. The city population has fallen 8.9 percent over the same period, from 991.

Salaries accounted for 7.5 percent of city spending in 2016. Witt property taxpayers paid $180,282 for three full-time employees and four part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had two full-time employees and six part-time employees, and spent $127,174.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
903
$2,386,650
$180,282
7.6
7
$25,755
2015
903
$1,707,713
$173,431
10.2
7
$24,776
2014
903
$1,447,960
$136,204
9.4
7
$19,458
2013
903
$1,389,528
$115,671
8.3
7
$16,524
2012
903
$783,165
$126,682
16.2
7
$18,097
2011
903
$1,457,135
$125,754
8.6
7
$17,965
2010
991
$1,377,120
$144,128
10.5
7
$20,590
2009
991
$1,413,360
$174,878
12.4
7
$24,983
2008
991
$719,199
$155,557
21.6
7
$22,222
2007
991
$724,192
$159,954
22.1
7
$22,851
2006
991
$736,125
$152,741
20.7
7
$21,820
2005
991
$639,600
$165,329
25.8
7
$23,618
2004
991
$756,698
$157,533
20.8
7
$22,505
2003
991
$709,784
$143,023
20.2
8
$17,878
2002
991
$678,871
$136,640
20.1
8
$17,080
2001
991
$1,185,852
$127,174
10.7
8
$15,897

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

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