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Monday, June 16, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Sheffield

Budget 01

The Village of Sheffield budget was $1.30 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $3,439.19 per household.

That's a decrease of 24.1 percent from 2014, when the village spent $1.71 million, or $4,530.36 per household.

Sheffield has 377 households and a population of 926.

Since 2001, the Village of Sheffield budget has fallen by 29.9 percent, from $1.85 million. The village population has fallen 3.5 percent over the same period, from 960.

Salaries accounted for 13 percent of village spending in 2015. Sheffield property taxpayers paid $168,072.54 for four full-time employees and 17 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and 15 part-time employees, and spent $158,684.36.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
926
$1,296,573
$168,072.54
13
21
$8,003.45
2014
926
$1,707,946
$155,846.21
9.1
21
$7,421.24
2013
926
$2,120,976
$169,262.08
8
19
$8,908.53
2012
926
$2,048,546.46
$175,006
8.5
19
$9,210.84
2011
926
$2,219,552.28
$194,257.44
8.8
20
$9,712.87
2010
926
$2,263,841.67
$195,154.65
8.6
20
$9,757.73
2009
1,100
$2,163,414.38
$162,592.31
7.5
19
$8,557.49
2008
1,000
$2,088,382.38
$158,447.47
7.6
19
$8,339.34
2007
1,000
$1,814,319
$152,730.63
8.4
23
$6,640.46
2006
980
$1,803,924
$164,204.40
9.1
23
$7,139.32
2005
975
$1,803,695.32
$168,339.92
9.3
23
$7,319.12
2004
965
$1,396,683
$163,124.37
11.7
23
$7,092.36
2003
965
$1,385,736
$166,985.28
12.1
13
$12,845.02
2002
965
$1,677,105
$150,187.50
9
15
$10,012.50
2001
960
$1,850,733
$158,684.36
8.6
16
$9,917.77

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

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