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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Shirland Township

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The Shirland Township budget was $92,187 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 60.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $234,277.

Shirland Township has a population of 1,000.

Since 2001, the Shirland Township budget has fallen by 46 percent, from $170,599. The township population has fallen 9.1 percent over the same period, from 1,100.

Salaries accounted for 40.5 percent of township spending in 2017. Shirland Township property taxpayers paid $37,359 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $3,113 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 10 part-time employees and spent $17,111, or $1,711 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,000
$92,187
$37,359
40.5
12
$3,113
2016
985
$234,277
$295,176
126
16
$18,449
2015
985
$268,220
$33,138
12.4
17
$1,949
2014
985
$170,714
$33,138
19.4
17
$1,949
2013
985
$237,359
$2,217,269
934.1
15
$147,818
2012
985
$129,802
$23,225
17.9
13
$1,787
2011
985
$212,264
$36,097
17
13
$2,777
2010
1,200
$204,623
$32,978
16.1
13
$2,537
2009
1,200
$185,881
$30,105
16.2
10
$3,011
2008
1,200
$180,503
$31,067
17.2
10
$3,107
2005
1,108
$217,914
$23,929
11
15
$1,595
2002
1,100
$305,843
$18,844
6.2
10
$1,884
2001
1,100
$170,599
$17,111
10
10
$1,711

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

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