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The price of local government in 2017: Maquon Township

Budget 12

The Maquon Township budget was $359,933 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 25.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $285,810.

Maquon Township has a population of 539.

Since 2001, the Maquon Township budget has grown by 234.6 percent, from $107,566. The township population has fallen 11.3 percent over the same period, from 608.

Salaries accounted for 12 percent of township spending in 2017. Maquon Township property taxpayers paid $43,210 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $5,401 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and eight part-time employees, and spent $30,215.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
539
$359,933
$43,210
12
8
$5,401
2016
556
$285,810
$33,768
11.8
8
$4,221
2015
556
$288,532
$34,954
12.1
8
$4,369
2014
556
$288,532
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2013
608
$317,682
$42,347
13.3
7
$6,050
2012
608
$153,612
$34,530
22.5
7
$4,933
2011
615
$107,859
$35,534
32.9
7
$5,076
2010
604
$116,321
$35,427
30.5
7
$5,061
2009
604
$113,373
$33,105
29.2
7
$4,729
2008
608
$109,395
$33,105
30.3
7
$4,729
2007
608
$103,334
$34,520
33.4
7
$4,931
2006
608
$100,156
$33,786
33.7
7
$4,827
2005
608
$303,583
$43,602
14.4
7
$6,229
2004
608
$121,270
$35,998
29.7
8
$4,500
2003
608
$107,168
$36,916
34.4
8
$4,614
2002
608
$110,320
$38,002
34.4
8
$4,750
2001
608
$107,566
$30,215
28.1
9
$3,357

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

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