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The price of local government in 2016: Mazon Township

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The Mazon Township budget was $268,066 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 18.6 percent from 2015, when the township spent $225,993.

Mazon Township has a population of 1,377.

Since 2001, the Mazon Township budget has grown by 9.9 percent, from $244,027. The township population has grown 7.6 percent over the same period, from 1,280.

Salaries accounted for 18.8 percent of township spending in 2016. Mazon Township property taxpayers paid $50,447 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $5,045 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had three part-time employees and spent $25,049, or $8,350 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,377
$268,066
$50,447
18.8
10
$5,045
2015
1,377
$225,993
$55,584
24.6
10
$5,558
2014
1,377
$201,929
$5,205
2.6
10
$520
2013
1,377
$434,591
$52,823
12.2
10
$5,282
2012
1,377
$257,288
$52,817
20.5
10
$5,282
2011
1,377
$237,752
$54,769
23
9
$6,085
2010
1,377
$215,779
$53,408
24.8
9
$5,934
2009
1,377
$306,235
$26,871
8.8
9
$2,986
2008
1,377
$204,575
$52,868
25.8
9
$5,874
2007
1,377
$218,258
$49,110
22.5
8
$6,139
2006
1,377
$270,500
$49,516
18.3
8
$6,190
2005
1,377
$292,890
$51,220
17.5
9
$5,691
2004
1,377
$225,522
$27,470
12.2
3
$9,157
2003
1,300
$193,120
$27,869
14.4
3
$9,290
2002
1,300
$263,200
$28,192
10.7
3
$9,397
2001
1,280
$244,027
$25,049
10.3
3
$8,350

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

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