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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The price of local government: City of Berwyn

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The City of Berwyn budget was $136.15 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $9,991.78 per household.

That's an increase of 40 percent from 2014, when the city spent $97.27 million, or $7,138.71 per household.

Berwyn has 13,626 households and a population of 56,758.

Since 2001, the City of Berwyn budget has grown by 91.4 percent, from $71.13 million. The city population has grown 5.1 percent over the same period, from 54,016.

Salaries accounted for 22.8 percent of city spending in 2015. Berwyn property taxpayers paid $31.08 million for 359 full-time employees and 191 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 83 full-time employees and 13 part-time employees, and spent $19.68 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
56,758
$136,148,049.60
$31,077,533.40
22.8
550
$56,504.60
2014
56,657
$97,272,053.61
$29,768,730.40
30.6
544
$54,721.93
2013
56,657
$124,421,154
$29,171,327.12
23.4
488
$59,777.30
2012
56,657
$95,561,655.30
$28,630,425.10
30
483
$59,276.24
2011
56,657
$102,226,663.44
$28,508,079.60
27.9
620
$45,980.77
2010
56,657
$103,991,981.70
$27,611,275.53
26.6
723
$38,189.86
2009
56,180
$109,556,387.15
$30,094,547.59
27.5
533
$56,462.56
2008
54,016
$98,461,538.65
$26,601,231.69
27
675
$39,409.23
2007
52,532
$105,204,030.75
$24,701,317.29
23.5
671
$36,812.69
2001
54,016
$71,127,894.27
$19,680,440.45
27.7
96
$205,004.58

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

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