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The price of local government in 2017: Stronghurst Township

Budget 13

The Stronghurst Township budget was $486,477 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 18.3 percent from 2016, when the township spent $411,216.

Stronghurst Township has a population of 1,115.

Since 2001, the Stronghurst Township budget has grown by 31.2 percent, from $370,654. The township population has grown 5.7 percent over the same period, from 1,055.

Salaries accounted for 7.7 percent of township spending in 2017. Stronghurst Township property taxpayers paid $37,630 for one full-time employee and five part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and 11 part-time employees, and spent $35,757.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,115
$486,477
$37,630
7.7
6
$6,272
2016
1,115
$411,216
$37,251
9.1
5
$7,450
2015
1,115
$288,835
$37,574
13
5
$7,515
2014
1,115
$388,478
$32,103
8.3
5
$6,421
2013
1,115
$380,738
$31,492
8.3
5
$6,298
2012
1,164
$364,629
$36,477
10
6
$6,079
2011
1,164
$371,790
$36,967
9.9
6
$6,161
2005
1,055
$361,136
$44,494
12.3
17
$2,617
2004
1,055
$367,783
$40,865
11.1
17
$2,404
2003
1,055
$379,649
$43,373
11.4
17
$2,551
2002
1,055
$386,943
$55,083
14.2
21
$2,623
2001
1,055
$370,654
$35,757
9.6
12
$2,980

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

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