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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Clarion Township

Budget 07

The Clarion Township budget was $224,298 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 38.4 percent from 2016, when the township spent $363,909.

Clarion Township has a population of 421.

Since 2001, the Clarion Township budget has fallen by 26 percent, from $303,028. The township population has fallen 4.3 percent over the same period, from 440.

Salaries accounted for 16.9 percent of township spending in 2017. Clarion Township property taxpayers paid $37,793 for one full-time employee and seven part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 10 part-time employees and spent $32,065, or $3,207 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
421
$224,298
$37,793
16.8
8
$4,724
2016
421
$363,909
$35,893
9.9
8
$4,487
2015
421
$230,285
$38,387
16.7
8
$4,798
2014
421
$190,588
$40,936
21.5
8
$5,117
2013
421
$299,511
$36,373
12.1
8
$4,547
2012
421
$403,382
$35,927
8.9
9
$3,992
2011
414
$305,185
$37,498
12.3
10
$3,750
2010
414
$294,491
$35,053
11.9
11
$3,187
2009
1,567
$289,809
$35,232
12.2
8
$4,404
2008
420
$264,069
$29,396
11.1
9
$3,266
2007
400
$244,061
$34,037
13.9
7
$4,862
2006
400
$302,688
$31,214
10.3
7
$4,459
2005
421
$238,615
$31,190
13.1
7
$4,456
2004
440
$235,103
$30,713
13.1
11
$2,792
2003
440
$244,120
$33,236
13.6
11
$3,021
2002
440
$351,470
$32,028
9.1
11
$2,912
2001
440
$303,028
$32,065
10.6
10
$3,207

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

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