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Thursday, April 3, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Woodland

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The Village of Woodland budget was $497,097 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $19,883.88 per household.

That's a decrease of four percent from 2014, when the village spent $517,884, or $20,715.36 per household.

Woodland has 25 households and a population of 324.

Since 2006, the Village of Woodland budget has grown by 123.3 percent, from $222,602.40. The village population has fallen 4.7 percent over the same period, from 340.

Salaries accounted for 4.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Woodland property taxpayers paid $20,940.60 for 16 part-time employees, or an average of $1,308.79 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2006, the village had one full-time employee and two part-time employees, and spent $20,836.80.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
324
$497,097
$20,940.60
4.2
16
$1,308.78
2014
324
$517,884
$20,429.02
3.9
17
$1,201.70
2013
324
$520,707.20
$16,817.84
3.2
7
$2,402.54
2012
324
$530,826.80
$14,802.90
2.8
3
$4,934.30
2011
340
$323,546.40
$12,539.88
3.9
3
$4,179.95
2010
340
$554,533.80
$14,694.18
2.6
3
$4,898.06
2009
340
$153,013.30
$16,928.53
11.1
3
$5,642.84
2008
340
$115,486
$13,493.33
11.7
3
$4,497.77
2007
340
$141,570
$20,526.48
14.5
3
$6,842.16
2006
340
$222,602.40
$20,836.80
9.4
3
$6,945.60

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

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