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Monday, June 30, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Dalton City

Budget 05

The Village of Dalton City budget was $506,736 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,863 per household.

That's a decrease of one percent from 2016, when the city spent $511,665, or $2,891 per household.

Dalton has 177 households and a population of 600.

Since 2001, the Village of Dalton City budget has fallen by 38.4 percent, from $822,677. The city population has grown 4.7 percent over the same period, from 573.

Salaries accounted for 15.1 percent of city spending in 2017. Dalton property taxpayers paid $76,470 for two full-time employees and nine part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had two full-time employees and eight part-time employees, and spent $84,842.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
600
$506,736
$76,470
15.1
11
$6,952
2016
600
$511,665
$69,580
13.6
11
$6,325
2015
600
$432,480
$62,832
14.5
10
$6,283
2014
600
$513,358
$53,189
10.4
12
$4,432
2013
600
$508,140
$58,816
11.6
12
$4,901
2012
600
$335,775
$55,429
16.5
11
$5,039
2011
600
$335,186
$59,509
17.8
14
$4,251
2010
600
$826,842
$60,076
7.3
15
$4,005
2009
600
$852,111
$73,000
8.6
12
$6,083
2008
600
$848,601
$73,853
8.7
12
$6,154
2007
600
$884,866
$79,351
9
12
$6,613
2006
600
$1,124,250
$90,875
8.1
12
$7,573
2005
581
$1,167,270
$84,793
7.3
11
$7,708
2004
573
$1,161,177
$85,335
7.3
10
$8,534
2003
573
$1,201,356
$84,283
7
10
$8,428
2002
573
$815,990
$88,525
10.8
10
$8,852
2001
573
$822,677
$84,842
10.3
10
$8,484

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

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