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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Wellington

Budget 08

The Village of Wellington budget was $182,177.10 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,469.17 per household.

That's an increase of 3.9 percent from 2014, when the village spent $175,383.25, or $1,414.38 per household.

Wellington has 124 households and a population of 264.

Since 2001, the Village of Wellington budget has fallen by 28.2 percent, from $253,696.60. The village population has fallen 10.2 percent over the same period, from 294.

Salaries accounted for 11 percent of village spending in 2015. Wellington property taxpayers paid $20,017.50 for five part-time employees, or an average of $4,003.50 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $13,753.43.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
264
$182,177.10
$20,017.50
11
5
$4,003.50
2014
264
$175,383.25
$15,386.14
8.8
5
$3,077.22
2013
264
$177,086
$13,587.60
7.7
5
$2,717.52
2012
264
$192,341.24
$13,038
6.8
5
$2,607.60
2011
264
$178,470
$15,911.64
8.9
5
$3,182.32
2010
264
$182,650.50
$14,796.30
8.1
5
$2,959.26
2009
264
$185,376.50
$15,920.57
8.6
5
$3,184.11
2008
264
$308,490
$17,047.18
5.5
5
$3,409.43
2007
264
$191,236.50
$10,657.53
5.6
5
$2,131.50
2006
264
$128,880
$17,616
13.7
5
$3,523.20
2005
264
$192,758
$19,516.36
10.1
5
$3,903.27
2004
264
$199,176
$15,660.60
7.9
5
$3,132.12
2003
264
$186,978
$15,525.84
8.3
6
$2,587.63
2002
264
$246,510
$9,270.45
3.8
7
$1,324.35
2001
294
$253,696.60
$13,753.43
5.4
7
$1,964.77

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

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