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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Deer Park Township

Budget 08

The Deer Park Township budget was $138,078 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 48.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $268,723.

Deer Park Township has a population of 492.

Since 2001, the Deer Park Township budget has fallen by 54 percent, from $300,295. The township population has fallen 10.2 percent over the same period, from 548.

Salaries accounted for 16 percent of township spending in 2017. Deer Park Township property taxpayers paid $22,083 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $3,155 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had seven part-time employees and spent $24,475, or $3,496 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
492
$138,078
$22,083
16
7
$3,155
2016
492
$268,723
$22,775
8.5
12
$1,898
2015
492
$268,710
$25,886
9.6
12
$2,157
2014
492
$301,305
$31,089
10.3
12
$2,591
2013
492
$262,008
$24,786
9.5
11
$2,253
2012
573
$249,392
$25,637
10.3
11
$2,331
2011
467
$213,909
$28,668
13.4
7
$4,095
2010
467
$209,703
$26,028
12.4
7
$3,718
2009
467
$449,551
$26,185
5.8
10
$2,618
2008
467
$376,354
$26,401
7
11
$2,400
2007
467
$342,027
$27,877
8.2
10
$2,788
2006
467
$304,350
$28,291
9.3
9
$3,143
2005
467
$277,388
$27,073
9.8
9
$3,008
2004
467
$306,090
$27,512
9
9
$3,057
2003
467
$360,944
$24,332
6.7
9
$2,704
2002
467
$289,205
$24,130
8.3
10
$2,413
2001
548
$300,295
$24,475
8.2
7
$3,496

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

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