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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Medora

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The Village of Medora budget was $421,821 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,850 per household.

That's an increase of 0.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $417,900, or $2,824 per household.

Medora has 148 households and a population of 500.

Since 2001, the Village of Medora budget has fallen by 36.6 percent, from $665,412. The village population has fallen 2.3 percent over the same period, from 512.

Salaries accounted for 13.6 percent of village spending in 2017. Medora property taxpayers paid $57,412 for six part-time employees, or an average of $9,569 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had four full-time employees and spent $52,431, or $13,108 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
500
$421,821
$57,412
13.6
6
$9,569
2016
500
$417,900
$57,947
13.9
6
$9,658
2015
500
$432,692
$60,281
13.9
6
$10,047
2014
500
$436,402
$54,513
12.5
6
$9,085
2013
500
$557,723
$56,678
10.2
6
$9,446
2012
500
$596,323
$64,380
10.8
6
$10,730
2011
500
$624,082
$69,107
11.1
4
$17,277
2010
500
$573,460
$88,953
15.5
5
$17,791
2009
500
$588,229
$84,279
14.3
5
$16,856
2008
500
$588,229
$82,405
14
5
$16,481
2007
500
$613,123
$80,971
13.2
5
$16,194
2006
500
$628,450
$82,140
13.1
5
$16,428
2005
515
$641,888
$73,184
11.4
5
$14,637
2004
515
$638,590
$76,160
11.9
5
$15,232
2003
515
$569,024
$76,363
13.4
5
$15,273
2002
515
$716,268
$82,635
11.5
5
$16,527
2001
512
$665,412
$52,431
7.9
4
$13,108

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

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