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The price of local government in 2017: Rush Township

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The Rush Township budget was $244,729 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 44.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $442,469.

Rush Township has a population of 380.

Since 2001, the Rush Township budget has fallen by 53.4 percent, from $524,839. The township population has fallen 11 percent over the same period, from 427.

Salaries accounted for 18.2 percent of township spending in 2017. Rush Township property taxpayers paid $44,645 for one full-time employee and four part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and five part-time employees, and spent $36,911.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
380
$244,729
$44,645
18.2
5
$8,929
2016
380
$442,469
$48,752
11
4
$12,188
2015
380
$207,808
$49,924
24
5
$9,985
2014
380
$315,239
$53,534
17
4
$13,384
2013
380
$380,052
$44,874
11.8
4
$11,219
2012
380
$377,161
$46,623
12.4
7
$6,660
2011
427
$290,274
$52,437
18.1
8
$6,555
2010
427
$293,271
$45,222
15.4
6
$7,537
2009
427
$274,798
$53,099
19.3
9
$5,900
2008
427
$280,187
$54,645
19.5
9
$6,072
2007
427
$434,720
$43,744
10.1
6
$7,291
2006
427
$277,493
$46,575
16.8
6
$7,763
2005
427
$276,431
$47,986
17.4
7
$6,855
2004
427
$396,797
$42,842
10.8
7
$6,120
2003
427
$385,665
$44,211
11.5
5
$8,842
2002
427
$400,379
$41,369
10.3
6
$6,895
2001
427
$524,839
$36,911
7
6
$6,152

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

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