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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Scottville

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The Village of Scottville budget was $60,058 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,251 per household.

That's an increase of 42.6 percent from 2016, when the village spent $42,126, or $878 per household.

Scottville has 48 households and a population of 116.

Since 2001, the Village of Scottville budget has grown by 60.2 percent, from $37,488. The village population has fallen 30.5 percent over the same period, from 167.

Salaries accounted for 8.6 percent of village spending in 2017. Scottville property taxpayers paid $5,168 for five part-time employees, or an average of $1,034 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had seven full-time employees and spent $5,992, or $856 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
116
$60,058
$5,168
8.6
5
$1,034
2016
116
$42,126
$5,249
12.5
5
$1,050
2015
116
$62,413
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2014
116
$137,397
$4,579
3.3
6
$763
2013
116
$96,854
$6,480
6.7
8
$810
2012
116
$48,876
$6,540
13.4
8
$818
2010
134
$46,307
$6,840
14.8
8
$855
2009
140
$46,449
$7,020
15.1
8
$878
2008
140
$46,215
$7,020
15.2
8
$878
2007
140
$34,770
$7,320
21.1
8
$915
2006
147
$35,625
$7,500
21.1
8
$938
2005
147
$37,050
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2004
149
$36,314
$6,392
17.6
8
$799
2003
149
$36,856
$6,555
17.8
8
$819
2002
167
$60,459
$6,958
11.5
8
$870
2001
167
$37,488
$5,992
16
7
$856

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

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