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The price of local government in 2016: Village of Lyndon

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The Village of Lyndon budget was $3.76 million for its 2016 fiscal year, or $10,381 per household.

That's an increase of nine percent from 2015, when the village spent $3.45 million, or $9,527 per household.

Lyndon has 362 households and a population of 600.

Since 2001, the Village of Lyndon budget has grown by 273.4 percent, from $1.01 million. The village population has grown six percent over the same period, from 566.

Salaries accounted for 4.3 percent of village spending in 2016. Lyndon property taxpayers paid $160,119 for two full-time employees and 10 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had three full-time employees and four part-time employees, and spent $164,853.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
600
$3,757,770
$160,119
4.3
12
$13,343
2015
600
$3,448,690
$184,157
5.3
12
$15,346
2014
600
$3,448,690
$169,005
4.9
12
$14,084
2013
600
$3,331,724
$138,716
4.2
12
$11,560
2012
600
$3,194,681
$129,255
4
11
$11,750
2011
600
$3,311,917
$142,130
4.3
12
$11,844
2010
600
$3,039,810
$134,241
4.4
12
$11,187
2009
600
$2,871,648
$139,971
4.9
12
$11,664
2008
600
$2,566,278
$135,691
5.3
12
$11,308
2007
600
$2,533,361
$148,379
5.9
11
$13,489
2006
600
$650,000
$144,695
22.3
11
$13,154
2005
600
$676,000
$147,251
21.8
11
$13,386
2004
600
$696,800
$167,914
24.1
11
$15,265
2003
566
$2,082,296
$150,778
7.2
11
$13,707
2002
566
$1,403,640
$161,822
11.5
7
$23,117
2001
566
$1,006,326
$164,853
16.4
7
$23,550

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

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