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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Rutland

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The Village of Rutland budget was $435,872 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $3,253 per household.

That's a decrease of 6.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $464,935, or $3,470 per household.

Rutland has 134 households and a population of 318.

Since 2001, the Village of Rutland budget has grown by 43.2 percent, from $304,468. The village population has fallen 10.2 percent over the same period, from 354.

Salaries accounted for 4.9 percent of village spending in 2017. Rutland property taxpayers paid $21,333 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $1,939 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 15 part-time employees and spent $31,020, or $2,068 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
318
$435,872
$21,333
4.9
11
$1,939
2016
318
$464,935
$21,513
4.6
11
$1,956
2015
318
$500,951
$22,734
4.5
11
$2,067
2014
318
$495,121
$23,199
4.7
11
$2,109
2013
318
$543,991
$23,285
4.3
11
$2,117
2012
318
$461,610
$22,507
4.9
11
$2,046
2011
354
$428,581
$22,515
5.3
11
$2,047
2010
354
$412,047
$21,825
5.3
11
$1,984
2009
354
$377,380
$19,009
5
10
$1,901
2008
354
$349,943
$20,405
5.8
10
$2,040
2007
354
$330,193
$22,934
6.9
10
$2,293
2006
354
$372,450
$23,755
6.4
10
$2,376
2005
354
$338,819
$26,079
7.7
10
$2,608
2004
354
$341,215
$24,222
7.1
15
$1,615
2003
354
$293,472
$24,001
8.2
15
$1,600
2002
354
$327,484
$27,747
8.5
15
$1,850
2001
354
$304,468
$31,020
10.2
15
$2,068

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

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