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The price of local government in 2017: Jefferson Township

Budget 13

The Jefferson Township budget was $118,197 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 2.5 percent from 2016, when the township spent $121,239.

Jefferson Township has a population of 268.

Since 2001, the Jefferson Township budget has grown by 37.1 percent, from $86,215. The township population has fallen 10.7 percent over the same period, from 300.

Salaries accounted for 17.1 percent of township spending in 2017. Jefferson Township property taxpayers paid $20,245 for four part-time employees, or an average of $5,061 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had seven part-time employees and spent $26,980, or $3,854 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
268
$118,197
$20,245
17.1
4
$5,061
2016
250
$121,239
$27,413
22.6
6
$4,569
2015
300
$132,869
$24,011
18.1
7
$3,430
2014
300
$168,427
$24,011
14.3
7
$3,430
2013
270
$164,621
$15,058
9.1
7
$2,151
2012
268
$113,037
$20,969
18.6
8
$2,621
2010
350
$95,213
$33,931
35.6
8
$4,241
2008
300
$120,182
$22,189
18.5
7
$3,170
2007
300
$92,345
$24,156
26.2
7
$3,451
2006
300
$90,978
$24,375
26.8
7
$3,482
2005
300
$87,478
$25,350
29
7
$3,621
2004
300
$84,407
$26,130
31
7
$3,733
2003
300
$85,666
$26,520
31
7
$3,789
2002
300
$85,001
$27,300
32.1
7
$3,900
2001
300
$86,215
$26,980
31.3
7
$3,854

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

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