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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Seaton

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The Village of Seaton budget was $126,174 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,051 per household.

That's a decrease of 16 percent from 2016, when the village spent $150,177, or $1,251 per household.

Seaton has 120 households and a population of 222.

Since 2001, the Village of Seaton budget has grown by 77.7 percent, from $71,000. The village population has grown 0.5 percent over the same period, from 221.

Salaries accounted for 3.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Seaton property taxpayers paid $4,085 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $454 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had seven part-time employees and spent $3,067, or $438 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
222
$126,174
$4,085
3.2
9
$454
2016
222
$150,177
$3,885
2.6
9
$432
2015
222
$151,608
$3,498
2.3
9
$389
2014
222
$157,066
$2,928
1.9
9
$325
2013
222
$112,509
$4,182
3.7
11
$380
2012
242
$124,260
$3,641
2.9
9
$405
2011
242
$136,971
$3,797
2.8
9
$422
2010
222
$122,653
$3,508
2.9
9
$390
2009
226
$125,880
$3,908
3.1
9
$434
2008
224
$109,170
$3,264
3
15
$218
2007
231
$113,836
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2006
250
$109,790
$3,325
3
9
$369
2005
250
$108,745
$3,679
3.4
9
$409
2004
250
$72,025
$5,132
7.1
10
$513
2003
250
$113,764
$4,148
3.6
9
$461
2002
231
$111,930
$3,354
3
6
$559
2001
221
$71,000
$3,067
4.3
7
$438

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

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