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The price of local government: Village of Fairmont City

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The Village of Fairmont City budget was $8.91 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $7,736.33 per household.

That's a decrease of 3.5 percent from 2014, when the city spent $9.23 million, or $8,015.14 per household.

Fairmont has 1,152 households and a population of 2,635.

Since 2001, the Village of Fairmont City budget has grown by 46.8 percent, from $6.07 million. The city population has grown 8.2 percent over the same period, from 2,436.

Salaries accounted for 15.3 percent of city spending in 2015. Fairmont property taxpayers paid $1.36 million for 20 full-time employees and 60 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 21 full-time employees and 31 part-time employees, and spent $1.02 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
2,635
$8,912,250
$1,360,137.36
15.3
80
$17,001.71
2014
2,635
$9,233,440.15
$1,465,795.06
15.9
81
$18,096.23
2013
2,635
$9,323,085.20
$1,316,813.68
14.1
81
$16,256.95
2012
2,635
$9,659,176.86
$1,289,657.48
13.4
62
$20,800.92
2011
2,831
$19,592,187.12
$1,402,902.72
7.2
73
$19,217.84
2010
2,436
$18,506,311.83
$1,366,310.10
7.4
77
$17,744.28
2009
2,436
$18,025,524.96
$1,390,928.30
7.7
77
$18,064
2008
2,436
$17,327,207.56
$1,291,745.94
7.5
64
$20,183.53
2007
2,436
$16,545,374.82
$1,296,073.35
7.8
62
$20,904.40
2006
2,430
$7,746,540
$1,269,976.80
16.4
42
$30,237.54
2005
2,430
$8,438,448
$1,320,795.92
15.7
43
$30,716.18
2004
2,436
$8,924,220
$1,249,291.47
14
71
$17,595.65
2003
2,436
$7,100,940
$1,081,167.12
15.2
68
$15,899.51
2002
2,436
$6,804,000
$913,297.95
13.4
52
$17,563.42
2001
2,436
$6,069,785
$1,019,182.73
16.8
52
$19,599.66

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

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