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Friday, November 22, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Austin Township

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The Austin Township budget was $265,486 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 14.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $310,800.

Austin Township has a population of 250.

Since 2002, the Austin Township budget has fallen by 19.2 percent, from $328,657. The township population has fallen 9.1 percent over the same period, from 275.

Salaries accounted for 19.9 percent of township spending in 2017. Austin Township property taxpayers paid $52,687 for one full-time employee and six part-time employees.

In 2002, the township had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $52,416.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
250
$265,486
$52,687
19.8
7
$7,527
2016
250
$310,800
$53,259
17.1
7
$7,608
2015
250
$388,819
$31,519
8.1
7
$4,503
2014
250
$394,320
$25,864
6.6
7
$3,695
2013
250
$270,000
$26,352
9.8
7
$3,765
2012
250
$165,953
$39,792
24
7
$5,685
2011
250
$163,850
$45,452
27.7
7
$6,493
2009
240
$258,514
$45,449
17.6
7
$6,493
2008
240
$314,730
$3,937
1.3
7
$562
2007
240
$325,130
$46,165
14.2
7
$6,595
2003
240
$136,430
$41,521
30.4
9
$4,613
2002
275
$328,657
$52,416
15.9
7
$7,488

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

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