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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

The price of local government: Village of New Athens

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The Village of New Athens budget was $2.91 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $3,770.71 per household.

That's a decrease of 20.6 percent from 2014, when the village spent $3.66 million, or $4,749.51 per household.

New Athens has 771 households and a population of 2,006.

Since 2001, the Village of New Athens budget has grown by 95.2 percent, from $1.49 million. The village population has grown 1.3 percent over the same period, from 1,981.

Salaries accounted for 22 percent of village spending in 2015. New Athens property taxpayers paid $638,771.94 for 10 full-time employees and 24 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 10 full-time employees and spent $468,255.04, or $46,825.50 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
2,006
$2,907,218.28
$638,771.94
22
34
$18,787.40
2014
2,054
$3,661,870.42
$650,292.56
17.8
21
$30,966.31
2013
2,054
$2,239,588
$684,526.96
30.6
18
$38,029.27
2012
2,054
$2,216,937
$657,077.04
29.6
38
$17,291.50
2011
2,054
$2,201,094
$554,447.16
25.2
38
$14,590.71
2010
1,981
$2,235,595.50
$557,445.33
24.9
24
$23,226.88
2009
1,981
$2,226,156.50
$555,804.06
25
15
$37,053.60
2008
1,981
$2,261,723.25
$587,327.67
26
18
$32,629.31
2007
1,981
$2,366,354.25
$583,597.17
24.7
19
$30,715.64
2006
1,981
$2,290,182
$546,679.20
23.9
21
$26,032.34
2005
1,981
$2,202,860
$489,818.60
22.2
26
$18,839.17
2004
1,981
$2,160,750
$587,259.60
27.2
17
$34,544.68
2003
1,981
$2,694,549
$551,007.60
20.4
11
$50,091.59
2002
3,000
$2,597,717.25
$509,087.70
19.6
8
$63,635.96
2001
1,981
$1,489,306.45
$468,255.04
31.4
10
$46,825.50

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

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