Quantcast

NW Illinois News

Sunday, November 24, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Ashton Township

Shutterstock 437118295

The Ashton Township budget was $217,563 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 17.3 percent from 2015, when the township spent $263,108.

Ashton Township has a population of 1,185.

Since 2001, the Ashton Township budget has grown by 28.5 percent, from $169,247. The township population has fallen 10 percent over the same period, from 1,317.

Salaries accounted for 13 percent of township spending in 2017. Ashton Township property taxpayers paid $28,239 for six full-time employees and two part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 13 part-time employees and spent $26,332, or $2,026 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,185
$217,563
$28,239
13
8
$3,530
2015
1,185
$263,108
$29,078
11.1
8
$3,635
2014
1,185
$139,335
$32,133
23.1
8
$4,017
2013
1,185
$208,373
$26,778
12.9
8
$3,347
2012
1,185
$297,338
$26,433
8.9
8
$3,304
2009
1,370
$172,142
$32,938
19.1
9
$3,660
2008
1,370
$201,082
$27,707
13.8
9
$3,079
2004
1,317
$121,254
$29,954
24.7
9
$3,328
2001
1,317
$169,247
$26,332
15.6
13
$2,026

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

ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS STORY

!RECEIVE ALERTS

The next time we write about any of these orgs, we’ll email you a link to the story. You may edit your settings or unsubscribe at any time.
Sign-up

DONATE

Help support the Metric Media Foundation's mission to restore community based news.
Donate

MORE NEWS