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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Elba Township

Budget 05

The Elba Township budget was $274,604 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 4.5 percent from 2016, when the township spent $262,755.

Elba Township has a population of 291.

Since 2001, the Elba Township budget has fallen by 4.3 percent, from $286,932. The township population has grown 4.7 percent over the same period, from 278.

Salaries accounted for 12.8 percent of township spending in 2017. Elba Township property taxpayers paid $35,175 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $3,908 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $34,684.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
291
$274,604
$35,175
12.8
9
$3,908
2016
291
$262,755
$38,108
14.5
9
$4,234
2015
291
$245,330
$41,237
16.8
9
$4,582
2014
291
$203,997
$42,184
20.7
11
$3,835
2013
278
$230,310
$39,839
17.3
8
$4,980
2012
278
$227,265
$43,600
19.2
10
$4,360
2011
278
$215,627
$45,200
21
10
$4,520
2010
278
$233,894
$42,912
18.3
10
$4,291
2009
278
$227,390
$35,319
15.5
8
$4,415
2008
278
$246,285
$35,777
14.5
8
$4,472
2007
278
$259,982
$36,058
13.9
8
$4,507
2006
278
$424,625
$36,183
8.5
8
$4,523
2005
278
$271,947
$35,380
13
8
$4,422
2004
278
$274,754
$32,060
11.7
9
$3,562
2003
278
$268,505
$34,034
12.7
7
$4,862
2002
278
$287,742
$34,790
12.1
7
$4,970
2001
278
$286,932
$34,684
12.1
7
$4,955

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

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