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The price of local government in 2017: La Salle Township

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The La Salle Township budget was $995,826 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 8.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $1.09 million.

La Salle Township has a population of 14,000.

Since 2001, the La Salle Township budget has grown by 17.4 percent, from $848,521. The township population has fallen 6.7 percent over the same period, from 15,000.

Salaries accounted for 25.9 percent of township spending in 2017. La Salle Township property taxpayers paid $258,326 for five full-time employees and nine part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had seven full-time employees and eight part-time employees, and spent $194,872.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
14,000
$995,826
$258,326
25.9
14
$18,452
2016
14,000
$1,093,313
$255,396
23.4
14
$18,243
2015
14,000
$1,051,679
$259,424
24.7
14
$18,530
2014
14,000
$940,750
$222,915
23.7
14
$15,922
2013
14,000
$904,500
$250,734
27.7
17
$14,749
2012
14,000
$955,876
$252,012
26.4
18
$14,001
2011
14,000
$848,461
$246,244
29
14
$17,589
2010
14,000
$915,534
$244,560
26.7
17
$14,386
2009
15,000
$653,972
$238,282
36.4
14
$17,020
2008
15,000
$585,878
$227,495
38.8
13
$17,500
2007
15,000
$585,753
$234,522
40
15
$15,635
2006
15,000
$704,781
$236,323
33.5
17
$13,901
2005
14,000
$866,580
$241,157
27.8
14
$17,225
2004
13,800
$1,070,459
$206,830
19.3
14
$14,774
2003
13,744
$919,156
$199,938
21.8
13
$15,380
2002
13,744
$928,480
$229,505
24.7
16
$14,344
2001
15,000
$848,521
$194,872
23
15
$12,991

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

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