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The price of local government in 2016: Leech Township

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The Leech Township budget was $280,523 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 5.8 percent from 2015, when the township spent $265,236.

Leech Township has a population of 600.

Since 2001, the Leech Township budget has grown by 40.2 percent, from $200,078. The township population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 18 percent of township spending in 2016. Leech Township property taxpayers paid $50,463 for one full-time employee and nine part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and seven part-time employees, and spent $43,933.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
600
$280,523
$50,463
18
10
$5,046
2015
600
$265,236
$49,359
18.6
10
$4,936
2014
600
$208,392
$44,501
21.4
12
$3,708
2013
600
$256,231
$43,448
17
9
$4,828
2012
600
$203,105
$47,405
23.3
13
$3,647
2011
600
$281,624
$46,671
16.6
9
$5,186
2010
600
$284,117
$49,713
17.5
10
$4,971
2009
600
$310,664
$49,938
16.1
9
$5,549
2008
600
$293,296
$48,426
16.5
13
$3,725
2007
600
$293,329
$49,397
16.8
17
$2,906
2006
600
$306,719
$46,943
15.3
10
$4,694
2005
600
$334,906
$61,945
18.5
9
$6,883
2004
603
$286,706
$53,530
18.7
9
$5,948
2003
6
$361,027
$46,927
13
11
$4,266
2002
588
$299,482
$48,007
16
11
$4,364
2001
600
$200,078
$43,933
22
8
$5,492

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

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