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The price of local government in 2017: Hamilton Township

Budget 02

The Hamilton Township budget was $313,991 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 325.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $73,758.

Hamilton Township has a population of 205.

Since 2001, the Hamilton Township budget has grown by 383.9 percent, from $64,894. The township population has fallen 13.1 percent over the same period, from 236.

Salaries accounted for eight percent of township spending in 2017. Hamilton Township property taxpayers paid $25,194 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $3,149 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had two part-time employees and spent $15,736, or $7,868 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
205
$313,991
$25,194
8
8
$3,149
2016
205
$73,758
$25,750
34.9
9
$2,861
2015
205
$219,755
$26,866
12.2
9
$2,985
2014
205
$238,357
$23,881
10
8
$2,985
2013
205
$330,540
$23,609
7.1
8
$2,951
2012
202
$276,185
$24,282
8.8
8
$3,035
2011
236
$277,677
$26,265
9.5
8
$3,283
2010
236
$271,374
$27,216
10
10
$2,722
2009
236
$359,802
$26,492
7.4
9
$2,944
2008
236
$221,385
$24,793
11.2
8
$3,099
2007
236
$227,286
$26,026
11.5
8
$3,253
2006
236
$222,125
$25,216
11.4
6
$4,203
2005
236
$230,685
$25,058
10.9
6
$4,176
2004
236
$68,556
$18,693
27.3
1
$18,693
2003
236
$65,683
$18,877
28.7
1
$18,877
2002
236
$65,380
$22,922
35.1
1
$22,922
2001
236
$64,894
$15,736
24.2
2
$7,868

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

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