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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The price of local government in 2016: Curran Township

Budget 12

The Curran Township budget was $710,430 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 1.6 percent from 2015, when the township spent $699,084.

Curran Township has a population of 1,678.

Since 2001, the Curran Township budget has grown by 57.1 percent, from $452,348. The township population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 13.2 percent of township spending in 2016. Curran Township property taxpayers paid $93,626 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $8,511 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had nine full-time employees and three part-time employees, and spent $63,900.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,678
$710,430
$93,626
13.2
11
$8,511
2015
1,678
$699,084
$84,441
12.1
11
$7,676
2014
1,678
$663,556
$84,755
12.8
11
$7,705
2013
1,600
$946,547
$76,071
8
11
$6,916
2012
1,586
$1,119,780
$78,506
7
7
$11,215
2011
1,586
$1,034,512
$85,821
8.3
7
$12,260
2010
1,685
$916,731
$66,785
7.3
10
$6,678
2009
1,685
$1,054,643
$66,495
6.3
10
$6,649
2008
1,678
$723,326
$66,760
9.2
10
$6,676
2007
1,678
$713,935
$65,087
9.1
7
$9,298
2006
1,678
$731,491
$66,250
9.1
12
$5,521
2005
1,678
$670,004
$68,900
10.3
12
$5,742
2004
1,678
$465,749
$67,000
14.4
12
$5,583
2003
1,678
$437,111
$68,000
15.6
12
$5,667
2002
1,678
$449,967
$63,000
14
12
$5,250
2001
1,678
$452,348
$63,900
14.1
12
$5,325

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

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