Quantcast

DeKalb Times

Sunday, November 24, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Squaw Grove Township

Budget 11

The Squaw Grove Township budget was $894,395 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 72.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $517,519.

Squaw Grove Township has a population of 2,802.

Since 2004, the Squaw Grove Township budget has grown by 37.5 percent, from $650,303. The township population has fallen 13.7 percent over the same period, from 3,247.

Salaries accounted for 13.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Squaw Grove Township property taxpayers paid $121,804 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $11,073 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
2017
2,802
$894,395
$121,804
13.6
11
$11,073
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.

MORE NEWS