Costs First up, the City of Salem requires that all necessary fees and charges be paid in full at the time that an application is submitted.
Acceptable payment is cash, check, or money order.
We do not accept credit cards at this time. Additional fees may accrue on certain permits or services when work is more than normally provided for in the base charge. Since we're government, we've got a lot of individual fees that you have to contend with. These fees are used to help cover the costs of the services involved. For things like Land Use Applications the fees cover about 50 percent of the cost involved, with the rest being picked up through general taxes.