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The price of local government in 2016: West Lincoln Township

Budget 13

The West Lincoln Township budget was $675,124 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 2.6 percent from 2015, when the township spent $658,234.

West Lincoln Township has a population of 7,685.

Since 2001, the West Lincoln Township budget has grown by 10.1 percent, from $613,227. The township population has fallen 4.4 percent over the same period, from 8,042.

Salaries accounted for 11.2 percent of township spending in 2016. West Lincoln Township property taxpayers paid $75,790 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $7,579 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had nine part-time employees and spent $94,566, or $10,507 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
7,685
$675,124
$75,790
11.2
10
$7,579
2015
7,685
$658,234
$75,522
11.5
10
$7,552
2014
7,685
$200,390
$76,761
38.3
10
$7,676
2013
7,685
$653,319
$77,139
11.8
10
$7,714
2012
8,000
$653,755
$77,431
11.8
10
$7,743
2011
8,000
$674,667
$79,175
11.7
10
$7,917
2010
8,042
$669,351
$76,984
11.5
11
$6,999
2009
8,042
$682,338
$76,771
11.3
10
$7,677
2008
8,042
$669,866
$79,299
11.8
10
$7,930
2007
8,042
$693,437
$87,384
12.6
10
$8,738
2006
8,042
$725,630
$82,095
11.3
10
$8,210
2005
8,042
$754,655
$85,379
11.3
10
$8,538
2004
8,042
$674,116
$89,844
13.3
9
$9,983
2003
8,042
$680,190
$89,245
13.1
9
$9,916
2002
8,042
$639,940
$91,420
14.3
9
$10,158
2001
8,042
$613,227
$94,566
15.4
9
$10,507

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

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