That's a decrease of 13.1 percent from 2016, when the city spent $878,430, or $140 per household.
Fairview Heights has 6,261 households and a population of 522.
Since 2003, the City of Fairview Heights budget has grown by 1.6 percent, from $752,012. The city population has grown 5.9 percent over the same period, from 493.
Salaries accounted for 7.4 percent of city spending in 2017. Fairview Heights property taxpayers paid $56,264 for 16 part-time employees, or an average of $3,517 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2003, the city had 23 part-time employees and spent $74,648, or $3,246 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
522
$763,776
$56,264
7.4
16
$3,517
2016
522
$878,430
$59,425
6.8
16
$3,714
2015
493
$888,386
$578,313
65.1
14
$41,308
2014
493
$889,446
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unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2013
493
$904,068
$65,292
7.2
7
$9,327
2012
480
$906,117
$69,008
7.6
15
$4,601
2011
480
$937,448
$78,269
8.3
15
$5,218
2010
480
$934,116
$77,723
8.3
15
$5,182
2009
480
$943,839
$78,851
8.4
15
$5,257
2008
493
$1,416,344
$81,205
5.7
17
$4,777
2007
493
$1,829,878
$76,708
4.2
16
$4,794
2006
493
$1,820,500
$75,230
4.1
17
$4,425
2005
493
$723,060
$80,434
11.1
19
$4,233
2004
493
$680,318
$80,096
11.8
19
$4,216
2003
493
$752,012
$74,648
9.9
23
$3,246
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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