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Monday, May 12, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Hollowayville

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The Village of Hollowayville budget was $64,889.34 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $4,055.58 per household.

That's an increase of 61.9 percent from 2014, when the village spent $40,076.27, or $2,504.77 per household.

Hollowayville has 16 households and a population of 90.

Since 2001, the Village of Hollowayville budget has grown by 265.4 percent, from $17,757.94. The village population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 9.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Hollowayville property taxpayers paid $5,967 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $663 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 10 part-time employees and spent $15,722.12, or $1,572.21 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
90
$64,889.34
$5,967
9.2
9
$663
2014
90
$40,076.27
$6,180
15.4
9
$686.66
2013
90
$39,371.28
$5,590
14.2
10
$559
2012
90
$53,071.02
$6,095
11.5
9
$677.22
2011
90
$47,292.12
$6,318
13.4
9
$702
2010
90
$20,130.96
$6,632.25
32.9
9
$736.91
2009
90
$19,517.36
$6,808.25
34.9
9
$756.47
2008
90
$18,587.37
$6,157.37
33.1
9
$684.15
2007
90
$36,658.44
$6,671.34
18.2
9
$741.26
2006
90
$18,799.20
$6,732
35.8
9
$747.99
2005
90
$18,502.04
$7,071.72
38.2
9
$785.74
2004
90
$33,441.96
$8,427.57
25.2
11
$766.14
2003
90
$17,109.84
$8,432.16
49.3
10
$843.21
2002
90
$17,498.70
$12,606.30
72
10
$1,260.63
2001
90
$17,757.94
$15,722.12
88.5
10
$1,572.21

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

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