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Sunday, November 24, 2024

The price of local government: Farmer City

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The Farmer City budget was $6.06 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $7,631.48 per household.

That's a decrease of 26.2 percent from 2014, when the city spent $8.21 million, or $10,337.42 per household.

Farmer has 794 households and a population of 2,030.

Since 2001, the Farmer City budget has fallen by 16.5 percent, from $7.26 million. The city population has fallen 7.7 percent over the same period, from 2,200.

Salaries accounted for 15.6 percent of city spending in 2015. Farmer property taxpayers paid $944,926.98 for 19 full-time employees and 35 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 19 full-time employees and 15 part-time employees, and spent $1.02 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
2,030
$6,059,395.68
$944,926.98
15.6
54
$17,498.64
2014
2,030
$8,207,911.38
$859,934.64
10.5
54
$15,924.71
2013
2,030
$7,809,986.08
$877,690.32
11.2
58
$15,132.59
2012
2,038
$9,113,384.98
$886,363.52
9.7
51
$17,379.67
2011
1,917
$5,754,529.44
$898,319.16
15.6
30
$29,943.97
2010
1,917
$6,001,326
$989,628.27
16.5
59
$16,773.36
2009
2,015
$7,040,979.15
$1,103,658.57
15.7
59
$18,706.07
2008
2,015
$7,486,815
$1,022,781.08
13.7
59
$17,335.27
2007
2,015
$7,552,818
$1,007,725.68
13.3
59
$17,080.09
2006
2,005
$8,413,680
$981,112.80
11.7
66
$14,865.34
2005
2,011
$12,864,491.60
$1,015,850.16
7.9
96
$10,581.77
2004
2,192
$9,290,650.95
$1,008,313.02
10.9
96
$10,503.26
2003
2,192
$9,435,448.44
$950,268
10.1
96
$9,898.62
2002
2,192
$10,102,499.55
$954,198.90
9.4
65
$14,679.98
2001
2,200
$7,255,002.14
$1,019,812.93
14.1
34
$29,994.49

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

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