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The price of local government in 2017: City of Coffeen

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The City of Coffeen budget was $1.17 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $4,828 per household.

That's a decrease of 1.8 percent from 2016, when the city spent $1.19 million, or $4,917 per household.

Coffeen has 242 households and a population of 685.

Since 2001, the City of Coffeen budget has grown by 43.8 percent, from $812,497. The city population has fallen 3.4 percent over the same period, from 709.

Salaries accounted for 8.5 percent of city spending in 2017. Coffeen property taxpayers paid $99,153 for three full-time employees and three part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had three full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $120,288.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
685
$1,168,457
$99,153
8.5
6
$16,526
2016
685
$1,189,864
$100,000
8.4
6
$16,667
2015
685
$1,122,967
$99,439
8.9
6
$16,573
2014
685
$1,090,912
$107,760
9.9
6
$17,960
2013
685
$1,111,495
$106,952
9.6
6
$17,825
2012
685
$1,094,550
$108,832
9.9
6
$18,139
2011
685
$1,049,095
$107,811
10.3
6
$17,969
2010
709
$1,039,157
$93,797
9
6
$15,633
2009
709
$992,915
$110,475
11.1
6
$18,412
2008
709
$818,482
$138,134
16.9
6
$23,022
2007
709
$701,842
$140,017
19.9
6
$23,336
2006
709
$763,336
$136,873
17.9
6
$22,812
2005
709
$138,325
$138,325
100
6
$23,054
2004
709
$775,729
$129,833
16.7
6
$21,639
2003
709
$788,629
$125,365
15.9
6
$20,894
2002
709
$879,278
$125,019
14.2
5
$25,004
2001
709
$812,497
$120,288
14.8
5
$24,058

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

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