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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Kirkwood

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The Village of Kirkwood budget was $6.19 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $20,631 per household.

That's an increase of 2.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $6.05 million, or $20,177 per household.

Kirkwood has 300 households and a population of 714.

Since 2001, the Village of Kirkwood budget has grown by 1081.4 percent, from $523,923. The village population has fallen 10.1 percent over the same period, from 794.

Salaries accounted for 1.4 percent of village spending in 2017. Kirkwood property taxpayers paid $83,510 for one full-time employee and nine part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had two full-time employees and nine part-time employees, and spent $77,675.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
714
$6,189,401
$83,510
1.3
10
$8,351
2016
714
$6,053,137
$92,785
1.5
10
$9,279
2015
714
$5,979,509
$83,829
1.4
10
$8,383
2014
714
$5,548,975
$81,264
1.5
10
$8,126
2013
714
$1,248,845
$74,316
6
10
$7,432
2012
714
$1,093,233
$72,855
6.7
10
$7,285
2011
714
$957,980
$72,452
7.6
10
$7,245
2010
900
$834,144
$73,230
8.8
10
$7,323
2009
900
$439,399
$57,413
13.1
10
$5,741
2008
900
$439,399
$57,413
13.1
10
$5,741
2007
900
$458,177
$53,786
11.7
10
$5,379
2006
900
$464,381
$57,399
12.4
10
$5,740
2005
900
$481,980
$90,312
18.7
12
$7,526
2004
794
$495,746
$95,571
19.3
13
$7,352
2003
794
$501,786
$92,341
18.4
11
$8,395
2002
794
$516,544
$91,580
17.7
16
$5,724
2001
794
$523,923
$77,675
14.8
11
$7,061

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

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