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Sunday, May 11, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Phoenix

Budget 11

The Village of Phoenix budget was $2.37 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,976 per household.

That's an increase of 1.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $2.32 million, or $2,920 per household.

Phoenix has 796 households and a population of 1,964.

Since 2001, the Village of Phoenix budget has grown by 13.4 percent, from $2.09 million. The village population has fallen 11.4 percent over the same period, from 2,217.

Salaries accounted for 43.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Phoenix property taxpayers paid $1.02 million for five full-time employees and 130 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 11 full-time employees and 75 part-time employees, and spent $916,772.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,964
$2,368,707
$1,024,094
43.2
135
$7,586
2016
1,964
$2,324,408
$1,176,720
50.6
124
$9,490
2015
1,964
$2,236,936
$1,047,181
46.8
143
$7,323
2014
1,964
$2,130,561
$987,724
46.4
127
$7,777
2013
1,964
$2,069,407
$1,013,460
49
114
$8,890
2012
1,964
$1,991,114
$1,209,997
60.8
114
$10,614
2010
2,034
$1,985,365
$1,006,090
50.7
105
$9,582
2008
2,517
$1,809,129
$887,805
49.1
110
$8,071
2007
2,517
$1,945,327
$989,990
50.9
110
$9,000
2006
2,157
$18,982,500
$947,738
5
110
$8,616
2004
2,089
$2,034,924
$946,832
46.5
114
$8,306
2003
2,217
$2,067,880
$820,272
39.7
84
$9,765
2002
2,217
$2,143,680
$839,342
39.2
98
$8,565
2001
2,217
$2,088,110
$916,772
43.9
86
$10,660

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

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