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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Clifton

Budget 05

The Village of Clifton budget was $13.82 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $25,448.81 per household.

That's an increase of 451.5 percent from 2014, when the village spent $2.51 million, or $4,614.42 per household.

Clifton has 543 households and a population of 1,468.

Since 2001, the Village of Clifton budget has grown by 1144.9 percent, from $1.11 million. The village population has grown nine percent over the same period, from 1,347.

Salaries accounted for 1.5 percent of village spending in 2015. Clifton property taxpayers paid $210,695.28 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $26,336.91 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had two full-time employees and 10 part-time employees, and spent $152,341.26.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
1,468
$13,818,701.94
$210,695.28
1.5
8
$26,336.91
2014
1,468
$2,505,631.56
$205,388.18
8.2
8
$25,673.52
2013
1,468
$20,921,940
$190,173.36
0.9
8
$23,771.67
2012
1,468
$4,210,585
$200,049.56
4.8
10
$20,004.95
2011
2,540
$7,098,030
$192,638.52
2.7
10
$19,263.85
2010
2,540
$1,820,566.50
$194,728.41
10.7
10
$19,472.84
2009
2,540
$954,115.50
$193,418.71
20.3
10
$19,341.87
2008
2,540
$1,799,106.90
$181,857.68
10.1
5
$36,371.53
2007
2,540
$17,774,792.10
$164,576.88
0.9
5
$32,915.37
2006
2,540
$1,922,280
$166,333.20
8.7
5
$33,266.64
2005
1,317
$1,976,138.40
$170,996
8.7
38
$4,499.89
2004
1,317
$2,092,747.65
$161,182.92
7.7
9
$17,909.21
2003
1,317
$3,281,896.20
$183,188.28
5.6
9
$20,354.25
2002
1,317
$668,857.50
$174,575.25
26.1
7
$24,939.32
2001
1,347
$1,110,042.50
$152,341.26
13.7
12
$12,695.10

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

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