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Monday, July 14, 2025

The price of local government: City of Earlville

Budget 11

The City of Earlville budget was $4.52 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $4,543.53 per household.

That's an increase of 102 percent from 2014, when the city spent $2.24 million, or $2,249.20 per household.

Earlville has 995 households and a population of 1,701.

Since 2001, the City of Earlville budget has grown by 37.8 percent, from $3.28 million. The city population has grown 26.3 percent over the same period, from 1,347.

Salaries accounted for 9.6 percent of city spending in 2015. Earlville property taxpayers paid $432,412.68 for six full-time employees and five part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had six full-time employees and 10 part-time employees, and spent $296,173.45.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
1,701
$4,520,816.46
$432,412.68
9.6
11
$39,310.24
2014
1,701
$2,237,955.16
$441,774.21
19.7
11
$40,161.29
2013
1,701
$2,134,252.64
$416,468
19.5
11
$37,860.72
2012
1,701
$1,940,997.80
$417,804.30
21.5
11
$37,982.20
2011
1,701
$2,687,397.48
$450,984.24
16.8
11
$40,998.56
2010
1,778
$3,095,430.36
$454,427.34
14.7
11
$41,311.57
2009
1,778
$3,187,700.62
$474,548.02
14.9
11
$43,140.72
2008
1,778
$3,824,392.34
$445,662.96
11.7
11
$40,514.81
2007
1,778
$4,137,074.37
$414,006.84
10
11
$37,636.98
2006
1,778
$3,378,116.40
$376,375.20
11.1
11
$34,215.92
2005
1,778
$5,304,582.36
$359,757.48
6.8
11
$32,705.22
2004
1,778
$6,409,911.96
$341,557.17
5.3
11
$31,050.65
2003
1,778
$8,326,029.36
$330,483.12
4
11
$30,043.92
2002
1,347
$9,264,021.30
$328,020.30
3.5
16
$20,501.26
2001
1,347
$3,280,014.27
$296,173.45
9
16
$18,510.84

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

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