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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Dahlgren

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The Village of Dahlgren budget was $534,595 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,742 per household.

That's an increase of 16.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $459,744, or $2,358 per household.

Dahlgren has 195 households and a population of 497.

Since 2001, the Village of Dahlgren budget has grown by 1.4 percent, from $527,175. The village population has fallen 2.9 percent over the same period, from 512.

Salaries accounted for 21.9 percent of village spending in 2017. Dahlgren property taxpayers paid $117,239 for five full-time employees, or an average of $23,448 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had three full-time employees and one part-time employee, and spent $81,549.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
497
$534,595
$117,239
21.9
5
$23,448
2016
519
$459,744
$107,465
23.4
5
$21,493
2015
500
$711,884
$110,097
15.5
5
$22,019
2014
525
$754,720
$114,017
15.1
7
$16,288
2013
525
$767,880
$86,409
11.3
5
$17,282
2012
525
$795,155
$82,377
10.4
4
$20,594
2011
525
$800,605
$93,686
11.7
4
$23,422
2010
525
$814,530
$95,034
11.7
4
$23,758
2009
525
$876,915
$94,330
10.8
3
$31,443
2008
525
$849,420
$101,210
11.9
4
$25,302
2007
525
$634,400
$104,842
16.5
4
$26,210
2006
525
$613,125
$102,795
16.8
4
$25,699
2005
525
$646,100
$99,966
15.5
4
$24,992
2004
525
$566,820
$96,082
17
4
$24,021
2003
525
$578,340
$96,370
16.7
4
$24,092
2002
525
$560,840
$91,314
16.3
4
$22,828
2001
512
$527,175
$81,549
15.5
4
$20,387

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

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