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The price of local government in 2016: Eminence Township

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The Eminence Township budget was $333,295 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 12.8 percent from 2015, when the township spent $382,216.

Eminence Township has a population of 1,000.

Since 2003, the Eminence Township budget has grown by 103 percent, from $164,190. The township population has grown 97.2 percent over the same period, from 507.

Salaries accounted for 10 percent of township spending in 2016. Eminence Township property taxpayers paid $33,302 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $3,700 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2003, the township had 11 part-time employees and spent $43,048, or $3,913 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,000
$333,295
$33,302
10
9
$3,700
2015
1,000
$382,216
$28,918
7.6
9
$3,213
2014
1,000
$341,368
$30,463
8.9
9
$3,385
2013
1,000
$293,976
$28,543
9.7
9
$3,171
2012
1,000
$302,769
$28,835
9.5
9
$3,204
2011
1,000
$243,820
$31,503
12.9
8
$3,938
2010
1,000
$240,962
$30,038
12.5
8
$3,755
2009
1,000
$249,672
$31,425
12.6
8
$3,928
2008
507
$224,897
$33,908
15.1
9
$3,768
2007
507
$227,188
$39,987
17.6
10
$3,999
2006
507
$247,406
$40,630
16.4
10
$4,063
2005
507
$579,885
$35,645
6.1
10
$3,564
2004
507
$197,688
$45,429
23
10
$4,543
2003
507
$164,190
$43,048
26.2
11
$3,913

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

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