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The price of local government in 2017: Talkington Township

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The Talkington Township budget was $246,462 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 43.3 percent from 2016, when the township spent $434,834.

Talkington Township has a population of 187.

Since 2001, the Talkington Township budget has fallen by 12.8 percent, from $282,576. The township population has grown 19.9 percent over the same period, from 156.

Salaries accounted for 29.5 percent of township spending in 2017. Talkington Township property taxpayers paid $72,713 for eight full-time employees, or an average of $9,089 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and 10 part-time employees, and spent $60,799.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
187
$246,462
$72,713
29.5
8
$9,089
2016
235
$434,834
$95,377
21.9
10
$9,538
2015
189
$438,976
$67,840
15.5
9
$7,538
2014
235
$429,849
$88,597
20.6
11
$8,054
2013
208
$455,716
$77,047
16.9
9
$8,561
2012
235
$374,027
$107,766
28.8
11
$9,797
2011
235
$523,600
$101,551
19.4
13
$7,812
2010
235
$438,752
$71,054
16.2
11
$6,459
2009
235
$448,176
$65,231
14.6
12
$5,436
2008
235
$435,627
$60,515
13.9
12
$5,043
2007
235
$507,642
$60,985
12
12
$5,082
2006
235
$386,254
$60,540
15.7
12
$5,045
2005
235
$378,790
$52,000
13.7
11
$4,727
2004
235
$273,924
$53,600
19.6
11
$4,873
2003
263
$412,028
$53,931
13.1
12
$4,494
2002
150
$299,643
$50,680
16.9
9
$5,631
2001
156
$282,576
$60,799
21.5
11
$5,527

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

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