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The price of local government in 2017: Erie Township

Budget 10

The Erie Township budget was $426,278 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 2.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $414,750.

Erie Township has a population of 2,031.

Since 2001, the Erie Township budget has grown by 416.7 percent, from $82,502. The township population has fallen 19.8 percent over the same period, from 2,531.

Salaries accounted for 4.5 percent of township spending in 2017. Erie Township property taxpayers paid $19,074 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $2,384 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 $23,927.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
2,031
$426,278
$19,074
4.5
8
$2,384
2016
2,031
$414,750
$19,740
4.8
8
$2,468
2015
2,031
$415,838
$19,490
4.7
8
$2,436
2014
2,031
$394,638
$19,490
4.9
8
$2,436
2013
2,006
$339,552
$17,555
5.2
9
$1,951
2012
2,031
$196,091
$25,125
12.8
8
$3,141
2011
2,031
$178,653
$27,816
15.6
8
$3,477
2010
2,031
$183,996
$26,345
14.3
8
$3,293
2009
2,014
$183,967
$26,992
14.7
8
$3,374
2008
2,014
$79,459
$24,433
30.7
7
$3,490
2007
2,014
$112,996
$25,763
22.8
7
$3,680
2006
2,300
$101,138
$24,356
24.1
7
$3,479
2005
2,014
$84,508
$20,742
24.5
9
$2,305
2004
2,014
$72,611
$563
0.8
1
$563
2003
2,014
$124,991
$22,494
18
7
$3,213
2002
2,014
$68,088
$20,229
29.7
7
$2,890
2001
2,531
$82,502
$23,927
29
7
$3,418

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

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