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The price of local government in 2017: Mountain Township

Budget 08

The Mountain Township budget was $46,446 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 47.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $89,087.

Mountain Township has a population of 323.

Since 2001, the Mountain Township budget has fallen by 88.8 percent, from $414,002. The township population has fallen 35.4 percent over the same period, from 500.

Salaries accounted for 14.2 percent of township spending in 2017. Mountain Township property taxpayers paid $6,581 for five part-time employees, or an average of $1,316 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had seven part-time employees and spent $18,432, or $2,633 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
323
$46,446
$6,581
14.2
5
$1,316
2016
500
$89,087
$5,411
6.1
5
$1,082
2015
500
$84,800
$5,578
6.6
4
$1,394
2014
500
$84,800
$5,711
6.7
4
$1,428
2013
500
$86,400
$5,065
5.9
5
$1,013
2012
500
$130,800
$8,810
6.7
6
$1,468
2011
500
$135,600
$16,516
12.2
6
$2,753
2010
500
$209,965
$16,919
8.1
8
$2,115
2009
500
$215,491
$19,195
8.9
8
$2,399
2008
500
$215,491
$17,619
8.2
9
$1,958
2007
500
$224,700
$15,378
6.8
9
$1,709
2006
500
$230,225
$25,340
11
9
$2,816
2005
500
$207,160
$29,661
14.3
9
$3,296
2004
500
$161,254
$25,843
16
9
$2,871
2003
500
$163,661
$21,366
13.1
7
$3,052
2002
500
$150,930
$19,610
13
9
$2,179
2001
500
$414,002
$18,432
4.5
7
$2,633

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

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