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The price of local government in 2017: Oran Township

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The Oran Township budget was $165,918 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 40.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $280,177.

Oran Township has a population of 378.

Since 2001, the Oran Township budget has fallen by 10 percent, from $184,281. The township population has fallen 13.5 percent over the same period, from 437.

Salaries accounted for 29.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Oran Township property taxpayers paid $49,028 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $4,086 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and eight part-time employees, and spent $49,010.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
378
$165,918
$49,028
29.5
12
$4,086
2016
378
$280,177
$54,873
19.6
12
$4,573
2015
350
$294,450
$47,978
16.3
13
$3,691
2014
350
$284,663
$46,586
16.4
18
$2,588
2013
350
$281,016
$49,527
17.6
13
$3,810
2012
350
$202,106
$43,913
21.7
13
$3,378
2011
350
$166,788
$45,910
27.5
13
$3,532
2010
350
$100,320
$49,709
49.5
15
$3,314
2009
350
$266,505
$47,420
17.8
10
$4,742
2008
350
$188,721
$45,508
24.1
14
$3,251
2005
452
$314,391
$48,815
15.5
10
$4,882
2004
452
$310,848
$50,960
16.4
11
$4,633
2003
452
$145,792
$43,894
30.1
9
$4,877
2002
437
$224,693
$44,465
19.8
9
$4,941
2001
437
$184,281
$49,010
26.6
9
$5,446

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

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