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The price of local government in 2016: Town of Topeka

Budget 13

The Town of Topeka budget was $46,830 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $2,129 per household.

That's a decrease of 0.9 percent from 2015, when the village spent $47,276, or $2,149 per household.

Topeka has 22 households and a population of 89.

Since 2001, the Town of Topeka budget has grown by 224.1 percent, from $14,449. The village population has fallen 4.3 percent over the same period, from 93.

Salaries accounted for 9.8 percent of village spending in 2016. Topeka property taxpayers paid $4,615 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $513 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had eight part-time employees and spent $1,934, or $242 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
89
$46,830
$4,615
9.9
9
$513
2015
90
$47,276
$4,452
9.4
9
$495
2014
90
$47,276
$4,325
9.1
9
$481
2013
90
$48,168
$4,136
8.6
9
$460
2012
90
$48,614
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2011
90
$50,398
$4,520
9
9
$502
2010
90
$47,424
$3,249
6.9
9
$361
2009
90
$48,672
$3,978
8.2
9
$442
2008
90
$48,672
$4,680
9.6
9
$520
2007
90
$50,752
$3,745
7.4
9
$416
2006
90
$33,063
$3,563
10.8
9
$396
2005
90
$34,385
$3,926
11.4
9
$436
2004
90
$35,443
$3,417
9.6
9
$380
2003
90
$35,972
$4,404
12.2
9
$489
2002
93
$14,245
$2,972
20.9
8
$372
2001
93
$14,449
$1,934
13.4
8
$242

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

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