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Thursday, May 16, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Creek Township

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The Creek Township budget was $489,651 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 13.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $430,290.

Creek Township has a population of 471.

Since 2001, the Creek Township budget has grown by 19.7 percent, from $408,932. The township population has grown 10.6 percent over the same period, from 426.

Salaries accounted for nine percent of township spending in 2017. Creek Township property taxpayers paid $44,202 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $3,683 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 17 full-time employees and spent $52,902, or $3,112 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
471
$489,651
$44,202
9
12
$3,683
2016
471
$430,290
$46,825
10.9
12
$3,902
2015
471
$472,712
$47,597
10.1
11
$4,327
2014
471
$397,895
$55,172
13.9
12
$4,598
2013
409
$359,503
$41,618
11.6
11
$3,783
2012
409
$346,947
$34,098
9.8
11
$3,100
2011
409
$320,581
$42,913
13.4
11
$3,901
2010
409
$309,265
$42,528
13.8
11
$3,866
2009
409
$324,020
$50,766
15.7
11
$4,615
2008
4,210
$327,062
$37,986
11.6
11
$3,453
2007
421
$334,176
$44,254
13.2
17
$2,603
2006
421
$327,769
$37,500
11.4
17
$2,206
2005
421
$323,479
$50,583
15.6
17
$2,975
2004
421
$334,893
$44,378
13.3
17
$2,610
2003
421
$381,669
$36,251
9.5
12
$3,021
2002
426
$392,895
$12,176
3.1
3
$4,059
2001
426
$408,932
$52,902
12.9
17
$3,112

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

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