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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Squaw Grove Township

Budget 07

The Squaw Grove Township budget was $517,519 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 54.6 percent from 2015, when the township spent $1.14 million.

Squaw Grove Township has a population of 2,802.

Since 2004, the Squaw Grove Township budget has fallen by 20.4 percent, from $650,303. The township population has fallen 13.7 percent over the same period, from 3,247.

Salaries accounted for 21.1 percent of township spending in 2016. Squaw Grove Township property taxpayers paid $109,127 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $9,921 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2004, the township had two full-time employees and three part-time employees, and spent $74,956.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
2,802
$517,519
$109,127
21.1
11
$9,921
2015
2,802
$1,139,500
$90,581
7.9
11
$8,235
2014
2,802
$1,142,500
$99,515
8.7
11
$9,047
2013
2,802
$462,236
$77,809
16.8
13
$5,985
2012
2,802
$953,946
$85,119
8.9
13
$6,548
2011
2,802
$1,065,859
$76,861
7.2
13
$5,912
2010
2,713
$923,771
$88,341
9.6
15
$5,889
2009
2,713
$860,336
$81,872
9.5
12
$6,823
2008
2,713
$790,277
$79,847
10.1
12
$6,654
2004
3,247
$650,303
$74,956
11.5
5
$14,991

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

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