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The price of local government in 2016: Ridgway Township

Budget 11

The Ridgway Township budget was $197,059 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 0.1 percent from 2015, when the township spent $197,346.

Ridgway Township has a population of 750.

Since 2001, the Ridgway Township budget has fallen by 21.3 percent, from $250,346. The township population has fallen 31.5 percent over the same period, from 1,095.

Salaries accounted for 16.1 percent of township spending in 2016. Ridgway Township property taxpayers paid $31,833 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $2,894 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had two full-time employees and eight part-time employees, and spent $28,604.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
750
$197,059
$31,833
16.2
11
$2,894
2015
750
$197,346
$28,094
14.2
14
$2,007
2014
750
$203,274
$30,029
14.8
14
$2,145
2013
750
$191,057
$30,850
16.1
10
$3,085
2012
750
$163,473
$31,136
19
10
$3,114
2011
1,000
$172,665
$34,188
19.8
10
$3,419
2010
1,000
$187,555
$38,538
20.5
10
$3,854
2009
1,095
$194,144
$35,433
18.3
12
$2,953
2008
1,095
$193,540
$36,767
19
12
$3,064
2007
1,095
$193,126
$6,954
3.6
5
$1,391
2006
1,095
$230,024
$37,313
16.2
11
$3,392
2005
1,095
$239,225
$30,329
12.7
11
$2,757
2004
1,095
$246,585
$29,480
12
10
$2,948
2003
1,095
$250,266
$29,580
11.8
10
$2,958
2002
1,095
$257,627
$30,450
11.8
10
$3,045
2001
1,095
$250,346
$28,604
11.4
10
$2,860

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

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