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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Compton

Budget 10

The Village of Compton budget was $76,449 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $302 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $78,698, or $311 per household.

Compton has 253 households and a population of 341.

Since 2001, the Village of Compton budget has fallen by 26.2 percent, from $103,589. The village population has fallen 29 percent over the same period, from 480.

Salaries accounted for 6.4 percent of village spending in 2017. Compton property taxpayers paid $4,927 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $493 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 12 part-time employees and spent $4,024, or $335 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
341
$76,449
$4,927
6.4
10
$493
2016
341
$78,698
$5,171
6.6
10
$517
2015
341
$79,447
$4,482
5.6
10
$448
2014
341
$79,447
$4,929
6.2
10
$493
2013
341
$80,946
$4,666
5.8
10
$467
2012
341
$81,696
$4,676
5.7
10
$468
2011
341
$84,694
$4,814
5.7
10
$481
2010
341
$84,645
$5,347
6.3
10
$535
2009
341
$86,884
$5,335
6.1
10
$534
2004
341
$97,753
$3,425
3.5
9
$381
2003
480
$99,212
$3,794
3.8
11
$345
2002
480
$102,130
$4,483
4.4
10
$448
2001
480
$103,589
$4,024
3.9
12
$335

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

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