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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Raritan

Budget 07

The Village of Raritan budget was $102,000 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,962 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $105,000, or $2,019 per household.

Raritan has 52 households and a population of 138.

Since 2001, the Village of Raritan budget has grown by 64.7 percent, from $61,912. The village population has fallen 1.4 percent over the same period, from 140.

Salaries accounted for 10.9 percent of village spending in 2017. Raritan property taxpayers paid $11,161 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $1,015 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $11,807, or $1,073 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
138
$102,000
$11,161
10.9
11
$1,015
2016
138
$105,000
$11,174
10.6
12
$931
2015
138
$106,000
$10,109
9.5
13
$778
2014
138
$106,000
$9,713
9.2
11
$883
2013
140
$102,600
$10,131
9.9
11
$921
2012
150
$261,600
$9,600
3.7
12
$800
2011
150
$26,668
$7,757
29.1
11
$705
2010
150
$49,704
$7,773
15.6
13
$598
2009
150
$62,712
$5,698
9.1
10
$570
2008
150
$62,595
$6,102
9.7
11
$555
2007
140
$56,486
$5,780
10.2
11
$525
2006
140
$54,500
$5,235
9.6
12
$436
2005
140
$56,680
$9,045
16
12
$754
2004
140
$58,424
$4,257
7.3
12
$355
2003
140
$59,296
$11,602
19.6
12
$967
2002
140
$61,040
$11,943
19.6
12
$995
2001
140
$61,912
$11,807
19.1
11
$1,073

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

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