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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Seaton

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The Village of Seaton budget was $145,886.52 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,215.72 per household.

That's a decrease of 4.4 percent from 2014, when the village spent $152,620.25, or $1,271.84 per household.

Seaton has 120 households and a population of 222.

Since 2001, the Village of Seaton budget has grown by 113 percent, from $68,500. The village population has grown 0.5 percent over the same period, from 221.

Salaries accounted for 2.3 percent of village spending in 2015. Seaton property taxpayers paid $3,366 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $374 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had seven part-time employees and spent $2,959.20, or $422.74 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
222
$145,886.52
$3,366
2.3
9
$374
2014
222
$152,620.25
$2,844.86
1.9
9
$316.09
2013
222
$108,342
$4,026.88
3.7
11
$366.08
2012
242
$120,840
$3,540.40
2.9
9
$393.37
2011
242
$130,910.04
$3,628.80
2.8
9
$403.19
2010
222
$119,424.90
$3,415.47
2.9
9
$379.49
2009
226
$121,576.70
$3,774.20
3.1
9
$419.35
2008
224
$105,438.04
$3,152.70
3
15
$210.18
2007
231
$109,170.36
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2006
250
$105,398.40
$3,192
3
9
$354.66
2005
250
$103,726
$3,509.20
3.4
9
$389.91
2004
250
$69,337.50
$4,940.70
7.1
10
$494.07
2003
250
$110,418
$4,026
3.6
9
$447.33
2002
231
$107,932.50
$3,234.60
3
6
$539.09
2001
221
$68,500
$2,959.20
4.3
7
$422.74

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

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