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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Sherrard

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The Village of Sherrard budget was $480,951 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,370 per household.

That's an increase of 56.7 percent from 2016, when the village spent $306,884, or $874 per household.

Sherrard has 351 households and a population of 640.

Since 2002, the Village of Sherrard budget has grown by 17.4 percent, from $409,556. The village population has fallen 7.8 percent over the same period, from 694.

Salaries accounted for 30.9 percent of village spending in 2017. Sherrard property taxpayers paid $148,841 for three full-time employees and 19 part-time employees.

In 2002, the village had one full-time employee and eight part-time employees, and spent $68,732.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
640
$480,951
$148,841
30.9
22
$6,766
2016
626
$306,884
$119,638
39
18
$6,647
2015
626
$490,299
$140,538
28.7
18
$7,808
2014
640
$530,530
$129,793
24.5
18
$7,211
2013
631
$546,534
$121,889
22.3
17
$7,170
2012
640
$553,611
$120,577
21.8
20
$6,029
2011
640
$549,067
$115,154
21
19
$6,061
2009
694
$445,583
$94,532
21.2
16
$5,908
2002
694
$409,556
$68,732
16.8
9
$7,637

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

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