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Friday, November 22, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Decatur Township

Budget 09

The Decatur Township budget was $2.74 million for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 2.4 percent from 2015, when the township spent $2.81 million.

Decatur Township has a population of 58,355.

Since 2001, the Decatur Township budget has fallen by 38.2 percent, from $4.43 million. The township population has fallen 31.6 percent over the same period, from 85,306.

Salaries accounted for 32.4 percent of township spending in 2016. Decatur Township property taxpayers paid $886,286 for 20 full-time employees and 11 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 24 full-time employees and nine part-time employees, and spent $1.09 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
58,355
$2,739,333
$886,286
32.4
31
$28,590
2015
58,355
$2,808,062
$915,282
32.6
34
$26,920
2014
58,355
$2,835,608
$768,146
27.1
38
$20,214
2013
58,355
$3,190,681
$796,523
25
31
$25,694
2012
58,355
$4,061,763
$1,001,701
24.7
39
$25,685
2011
58,355
$3,975,315
$1,082,550
27.2
38
$28,488
2010
58,355
$4,331,327
$1,148,927
26.5
32
$35,904
2009
58,355
$5,887,460
$1,174,839
20
35
$33,567
2008
58,355
$5,992,993
$1,186,720
19.8
31
$38,281
2007
58,355
$4,181,683
$1,182,080
28.3
30
$39,403
2006
58,355
$4,255,880
$1,178,643
27.7
37
$31,855
2005
58,355
$4,467,304
$1,178,641
26.4
27
$43,653
2004
58,355
$5,046,762
$1,165,292
23.1
27
$43,159
2003
58,355
$5,155,019
$1,018,296
19.8
25
$40,732
2002
58,355
$5,109,621
$1,086,651
21.3
35
$31,047
2001
85,306
$4,429,596
$1,094,393
24.7
33
$33,163

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

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