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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Malta

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The Village of Malta budget was $1.69 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,820 per household.

That's a decrease of 12.2 percent from 2016, when the village spent $1.93 million, or $3,211 per household.

Malta has 600 households and a population of 1,156.

Since 2001, the Village of Malta budget has grown by 68.7 percent, from $1 million. The village population has grown 32.9 percent over the same period, from 870.

Salaries accounted for 10.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Malta property taxpayers paid $173,446 for two full-time employees and 14 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had five full-time employees and spent $115,188, or $23,038 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,156
$1,691,766
$173,446
10.3
16
$10,840
2016
1,156
$1,926,427
$177,322
9.2
16
$11,083
2015
1,164
$2,979,069
$192,104
6.4
16
$12,006
2014
1,164
$2,994,836
$201,650
6.7
16
$12,603
2013
1,164
$1,910,408
$209,898
11
16
$13,119
2012
1,164
$1,826,493
$200,768
11
16
$12,548
2004
969
$976,190
$167,500
17.2
5
$33,500
2003
969
$1,332,204
$165,985
12.5
5
$33,197
2002
900
$798,420
$180,939
22.7
5
$36,188
2001
870
$1,003,074
$115,188
11.5
5
$23,038

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

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