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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Carbon Hill

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The Village of Carbon Hill budget was $2.87 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $19,020 per household.

That's an increase of two percent from 2016, when the village spent $2.82 million, or $18,647 per household.

Carbon Hill has 151 households and a population of 352.

Since 2001, the Village of Carbon Hill budget has grown by 51.4 percent, from $1.90 million. The village population has fallen 12 percent over the same period, from 400.

Salaries accounted for 1.4 percent of village spending in 2017. Carbon Hill property taxpayers paid $40,463 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $3,113 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had six part-time employees and spent $18,933, or $3,155 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
352
$2,872,082
$40,463
1.4
13
$3,113
2016
352
$2,815,764
$39,199
1.4
13
$3,015
2015
352
$1,751,177
$43,919
2.5
13
$3,378
2014
352
$1,629,426
$39,497
2.4
13
$3,038
2013
345
$1,644,633
$33,701
2
14
$2,407
2012
345
$1,581,884
$35,066
2.2
14
$2,505
2011
320
$1,639,935
$26,732
1.6
2
$13,366
2010
320
$881,309
$33,526
3.8
2
$16,763
2009
320
$862,801
$26,282
3
2
$13,141
2008
320
$1,173,683
$32,913
2.8
2
$16,457
2007
320
$1,125,509
$29,458
2.6
2
$14,729
2006
3,201
$1,463,688
$24,533
1.7
12
$2,044
2005
400
$1,250,880
$23,942
1.9
6
$3,990
2004
400
$490,273
$20,946
4.3
6
$3,491
2003
400
$404,192
$25,626
6.3
6
$4,271
2002
400
$1,903,580
$24,091
1.3
6
$4,015
2001
400
$1,896,978
$18,933
1
6
$3,155

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

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