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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Earl Township

Budget 03

The Earl Township budget was $1.51 million for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 49.2 percent from 2015, when the township spent $2.97 million.

Earl Township has a population of 2,595.

Since 2001, the Earl Township budget has grown by 65.5 percent, from $912,340. The township population has grown 12.8 percent over the same period, from 2,300.

Salaries accounted for six percent of township spending in 2016. Earl Township property taxpayers paid $90,059 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $6,433 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 13 part-time employees and spent $98,135, or $7,549 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
2,595
$1,509,870
$90,059
6
14
$6,433
2015
2,595
$2,973,557
$90,366
3
15
$6,024
2014
2,595
$1,375,831
$89,974
6.5
14
$6,427
2013
2,595
$1,410,031
$87,120
6.2
14
$6,223
2012
2,595
$1,427,193
$94,470
6.6
9
$10,497
2011
2,727
$1,426,536
$96,267
6.7
9
$10,696
2010
2,727
$1,251,516
$103,355
8.3
9
$11,484
2009
3,641
$1,243,126
$106,470
8.6
9
$11,830
2008
3,641
$715,361
$103,812
14.5
12
$8,651
2007
2,384
$1,036,146
$102,922
9.9
20
$5,146
2006
2,384
$1,197,071
$163,125
13.6
25
$6,525
2005
2,384
$1,116,879
$144,756
13
20
$7,238
2004
2,384
$879,431
$135,769
15.4
24
$5,657
2003
2,384
$1,077,756
$161,943
15
24
$6,748
2002
2,384
$938,619
$79,717
8.5
13
$6,132
2001
2,300
$912,340
$98,135
10.8
13
$7,549

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

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