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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Sheridan

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The Village of Sheridan budget was $983,335 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $864 per household.

That's an increase of 24.1 percent from 2016, when the village spent $792,103, or $696 per household.

Sheridan has 1,138 households and a population of 2,000.

Since 2001, the Village of Sheridan budget has grown by 5.6 percent, from $930,846. The village population has fallen 13.8 percent over the same period, from 2,321.

Salaries accounted for 22.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Sheridan property taxpayers paid $218,345 for three full-time employees and 23 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had three full-time employees and 30 part-time employees, and spent $277,539.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
2,000
$983,335
$218,345
22.2
26
$8,398
2016
2,111
$792,103
$203,783
25.7
18
$11,321
2015
2,000
$704,362
$200,925
28.5
26
$7,728
2014
2,000
$1,209,318
$189,160
15.6
26
$7,275
2013
1,970
$1,858,252
$191,541
10.3
26
$7,367
2012
1,970
$1,572,977
$153,925
9.8
26
$5,920
2011
1,963
$667,749
$204,085
30.6
26
$7,849
2010
1,963
$901,620
$214,266
23.8
26
$8,241
2009
1,963
$1,163,661
$221,771
19.1
29
$7,647
2008
5,168
$1,144,368
$178,241
15.6
26
$6,855
2007
2,321
$1,103,633
$222,604
20.2
26
$8,562
2006
2,321
$991,281
$227,506
23
19
$11,974
2005
2,321
$1,110,129
$208,053
18.7
19
$10,950
2004
2,321
$587,586
$216,693
36.9
29
$7,472
2003
2,321
$609,982
$217,601
35.7
31
$7,019
2002
2,321
$1,088,802
$224,344
20.6
31
$7,237
2001
2,321
$930,846
$277,539
29.8
33
$8,410

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

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