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Monday, July 14, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Union

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The Village of Union budget was $1.23 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $5,671.34 per household.

That's a decrease of 13.7 percent from 2014, when the village spent $1.43 million, or $6,570.36 per household.

Union has 217 households and a population of 580.

Since 2001, the Village of Union budget has grown by 14.8 percent, from $1.07 million. The village population has grown one percent over the same period, from 574.

Salaries accounted for 11.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Union property taxpayers paid $137,660.22 for 32 part-time employees, or an average of $4,301.88 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had nine part-time employees and spent $49,247.39, or $5,471.93 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
580
$1,230,681
$137,660.22
11.2
32
$4,301.88
2014
580
$1,425,767.20
$141,927.82
10
20
$7,096.39
2013
580
$1,279,243.68
$128,355.76
10
20
$6,417.78
2012
580
$1,231,293.88
$120,567.58
9.8
23
$5,242.06
2011
615
$2,763,115.20
$125,213.04
4.5
35
$3,577.51
2010
615
$4,348,047.60
$119,195.13
2.7
31
$3,845
2009
615
$973,156
$119,383.37
12.3
23
$5,190.58
2008
576
$1,218,021.35
$110,190.82
9
18
$6,121.71
2007
582
$1,040,159.25
$88,690.68
8.5
18
$4,927.25
2006
579
$1,368,055.20
$97,848
7.2
21
$4,659.42
2005
578
$1,209,794.84
$88,738.12
7.3
24
$3,697.42
2004
585
$945,304.26
$82,922.49
8.8
18
$4,606.80
2003
579
$968,015.40
$76,319.76
7.9
18
$4,239.98
2002
576
$817,695
$77,788.35
9.5
10
$7,778.83
2001
574
$1,072,367.50
$49,247.39
4.6
9
$5,471.93

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

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