The price of local government: Village of Winfield

The Village of Winfield budget was $18.41 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $8,777.26 per household.

That's an increase of 29.9 percent from 2014, when the village spent $14.17 million, or $6,758.36 per household.

Winfield has 2,097 households and a population of 9,080.

Since 2001, the Village of Winfield budget has grown by 104.7 percent, from $8.99 million. The village population has grown 5.3 percent over the same period, from 8,625.

Salaries accounted for 15.8 percent of village spending in 2015. Winfield property taxpayers paid $2.91 million for 32 full-time employees and five part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 32 full-time employees and 12 part-time employees, and spent $2.46 million.

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