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The price of local government in 2016: Village of St. Augustine

Budget 06

The Village of St. Augustine budget was $247,275 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $4,579 per household.

That's a decrease of 12.4 percent from 2015, when the village spent $282,232, or $5,227 per household.

St. Augustine has 54 households and a population of 150.

Since 2001, the Village of St. Augustine budget has grown by 485.3 percent, from $42,245. The village population has fallen 0.7 percent over the same period, from 151.

Salaries accounted for 4.7 percent of village spending in 2016. St. Augustine property taxpayers paid $11,508 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $1,046 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had four part-time employees and spent $19,234, or $4,808 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
150
$247,275
$11,508
4.7
11
$1,046
2015
150
$282,232
$12,211
4.3
10
$1,221
2014
150
$313,163
$11,726
3.7
13
$902
2013
150
$306,385
$12,929
4.2
12
$1,077
2012
151
$306,504
$13,914
4.5
13
$1,070
2011
151
$313,914
$14,304
4.6
15
$954
2010
151
$349,923
$13,026
3.7
14
$930
2009
151
$307,067
$15,953
5.2
16
$997
2008
151
$176,904
$14,567
8.2
13
$1,121
2007
151
$195,505
$14,603
7.5
13
$1,123
2006
151
$182,750
$15,425
8.4
13
$1,187
2005
151
$81,835
$15,561
19
14
$1,112
2004
151
$72,293
$15,946
22.1
14
$1,139
2003
151
$72,012
$15,402
21.4
12
$1,284
2002
151
$43,050
$18,158
42.2
4
$4,540
2001
151
$42,245
$19,234
45.5
4
$4,808

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

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