Quantcast

Macon Reporter

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The price of local government: City of Sullivan

Budget 01

The City of Sullivan budget was $28.74 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2.61 million per household.

That's a decrease of 3.5 percent from 2014, when the city spent $29.77 million, or $2.71 million per household.

Sullivan has 11 households and a population of 4,469.

Since 2001, the City of Sullivan budget has grown by 29.8 percent, from $22.14 million. The city population has grown 11.7 percent over the same period, from 4,000.

Salaries accounted for 9.6 percent of city spending in 2015. Sullivan property taxpayers paid $2.76 million for 60 full-time employees and 40 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 66 full-time employees and 17 part-time employees, and spent $3.11 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
4,469
$28,737,429
$2,761,045.14
9.6
100
$27,610.45
2014
4,469
$29,767,206
$2,735,624.38
9.2
100
$27,356.24
2013
4,396
$32,220,448
$2,786,316
8.6
108
$25,799.22
2012
4,396
$37,298,061
$2,718,413.46
7.3
108
$25,170.49
2011
4,396
$30,815,262
$2,832,526.80
9.2
102
$27,769.87
2010
4,396
$27,961,621.50
$2,899,005.87
10.4
104
$27,875.05
2009
4,323
$27,852,855.85
$2,885,393.98
10.4
120
$24,044.94
2008
4,323
$29,280,842.50
$2,798,715.07
9.6
120
$23,322.62
2007
4,323
$34,072,067.25
$2,939,661.27
8.6
83
$35,417.60
2006
4,323
$33,059,113.20
$2,917,305.60
8.8
83
$35,148.26
2005
4,299
$26,925,032.64
$2,974,419
11
89
$33,420.43
2004
4,326
$27,119,795.13
$3,165,011.13
11.7
89
$35,561.92
2003
4,326
$25,686,516.24
$3,222,488.28
12.5
89
$36,207.73
2002
4,326
$26,028,961.20
$3,210,543
12.3
89
$36,073.51
2001
4,000
$22,140,549.45
$3,111,891.98
14.1
83
$37,492.67

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

ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS STORY

!RECEIVE ALERTS

The next time we write about any of these orgs, we’ll email you a link to the story. You may edit your settings or unsubscribe at any time.
Sign-up

DONATE

Help support the Metric Media Foundation's mission to restore community based news.
Donate

MORE NEWS