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The price of local government in 2016: Village of Cypress

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The Village of Cypress budget was $204,094 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $1,633 per household.

That's an increase of 2.6 percent from 2015, when the village spent $198,856, or $1,591 per household.

Cypress has 125 households and a population of 234.

Since 2001, the Village of Cypress budget has grown by 226.7 percent, from $62,480. The village population has fallen 13.7 percent over the same period, from 271.

Salaries accounted for 5.8 percent of village spending in 2016. Cypress property taxpayers paid $11,898 for three part-time employees, or an average of $3,966 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had two part-time employees and spent $14,846, or $7,423 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
234
$204,094
$11,898
5.8
3
$3,966
2015
234
$198,856
$11,557
5.8
3
$3,852
2014
234
$204,289
$18,581
9.1
3
$6,194
2013
234
$213,705
$10,609
5
3
$3,536
2012
234
$245,468
$18,651
7.6
3
$6,217
2011
234
$255,719
$18,949
7.4
3
$6,316
2010
280
$270,066
$9,969
3.7
2
$4,985
2009
280
$291,564
$6,815
2.3
3
$2,272
2008
250
$315,081
$21,143
6.7
3
$7,048
2007
271
$323,056
$16,616
5.1
4
$4,154
2006
217
$359,250
$16,858
4.7
4
$4,214
2005
271
$317,070
$18,160
5.7
3
$6,053
2004
271
$344,179
$28,817
8.4
3
$9,606
2003
271
$438,872
$25,669
5.8
3
$8,556
2002
271
$258,888
$18,518
7.2
2
$9,259
2001
271
$62,480
$14,846
23.8
2
$7,423

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

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