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The price of local government: City of Grafton

Budget 12

The City of Grafton budget was $3.25 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $10,681.17 per household.

That's a decrease of 6.5 percent from 2014, when the city spent $3.47 million, or $11,419.49 per household.

Grafton has 304 households and a population of 660.

Since 2001, the City of Grafton budget has grown by 127.2 percent, from $1.43 million. The city population has grown 8.4 percent over the same period, from 609.

Salaries accounted for 11.3 percent of city spending in 2015. Grafton property taxpayers paid $367,212.24 for four full-time employees and 24 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had eight full-time employees and six part-time employees, and spent $391,984.40.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
660
$3,247,077.18
$367,212.24
11.3
28
$13,114.72
2014
672
$3,471,526.42
$383,731.65
11.1
35
$10,963.76
2013
672
$1,141,098.40
$353,819.44
31
19
$18,622.07
2012
672
$2,094,599.22
$367,281.52
17.5
19
$19,330.60
2011
672
$5,402,150.28
$395,257.32
7.3
21
$18,821.77
2010
672
$3,803,611.47
$467,884.98
12.3
21
$22,280.23
2009
609
$4,208,449.96
$458,479.42
10.9
16
$28,654.96
2008
609
$2,787,529.20
$464,815.33
16.7
27
$17,215.38
2007
609
$3,474,391.05
$469,540.89
13.5
27
$17,390.40
2006
609
$2,295,711.60
$369,835.20
16.1
22
$16,810.69
2005
609
$1,612,390.60
$356,720.72
22.1
22
$16,214.57
2004
609
$1,418,356.29
$344,828.61
24.3
16
$21,551.78
2003
609
$1,421,834.04
$368,479.32
25.9
13
$28,344.56
2002
609
$1,183,045.50
$329,049
27.8
13
$25,311.46
2001
609
$1,429,188.11
$391,984.40
27.4
14
$27,998.88

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

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