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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Fayetteville

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The Village of Fayetteville budget was $606,529 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $6,385 per household.

That's an increase of 40.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $432,270, or $4,550 per household.

Fayetteville has 95 households and a population of 366.

Since 2001, the Village of Fayetteville budget has fallen by 13.1 percent, from $697,806. The village population has fallen 1.3 percent over the same period, from 371.

Salaries accounted for 13.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Fayetteville property taxpayers paid $80,259 for 26 part-time employees, or an average of $3,087 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 14 part-time employees and spent $59,062, or $4,219 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
366
$606,529
$80,259
13.2
26
$3,087
2016
366
$432,270
$79,551
18.4
23
$3,459
2015
366
$652,680
$73,057
11.2
23
$3,176
2014
366
$622,311
$75,731
12.2
18
$4,207
2013
366
$575,371
$68,509
11.9
17
$4,030
2012
366
$580,590
$68,946
11.9
22
$3,134
2011
366
$3,295,533
$68,942
2.1
22
$3,134
2010
384
$1,326,112
$74,337
5.6
23
$3,232
2009
384
$1,488,469
$67,934
4.6
18
$3,774
2008
384
$1,389,370
$62,257
4.5
19
$3,277
2007
384
$1,433,764
$59,508
4.2
24
$2,479
2006
384
$247,345
$56,468
22.8
15
$3,765
2005
384
$231,646
$61,849
26.7
15
$4,123
2004
371
$229,159
$57,695
25.2
14
$4,121
2003
371
$234,782
$60,173
25.6
14
$4,298
2002
371
$262,863
$60,140
22.9
14
$4,296
2001
371
$697,806
$59,062
8.5
14
$4,219

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

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