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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Bourbon Township

Budget 08

The Bourbon Township budget was $2.44 million for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 7.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $2.27 million.

Bourbon Township has a population of 3,662.

Since 2001, the Bourbon Township budget has grown by 279.9 percent, from $643,102. The township population has grown 4.6 percent over the same period, from 3,500.

Salaries accounted for 6.2 percent of township spending in 2017. Bourbon Township property taxpayers paid $150,347 for four full-time employees and 28 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had three full-time employees and 16 part-time employees, and spent $184,954.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
3,662
$2,443,047
$150,347
6.2
32
$4,698
2016
3,662
$2,266,987
$143,741
6.3
32
$4,492
2015
3,662
$2,378,992
$194,299
8.2
30
$6,477
2014
3,662
$2,277,324
$200,703
8.8
31
$6,474
2013
3,662
$2,111,358
$182,997
8.7
30
$6,100
2012
3,662
$1,891,978
$204,475
10.8
29
$7,051
2011
3,662
$1,895,828
$192,390
10.1
29
$6,634
2010
3,662
$1,946,853
$181,318
9.3
23
$7,883
2003
3,500
$771,314
$203,705
26.4
26
$7,835
2002
3,500
$706,765
$192,396
27.2
26
$7,400
2001
3,500
$643,102
$184,954
28.8
19
$9,734

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

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