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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Ohio Grove Township

Budget 05

The Ohio Grove Township budget was $135,707 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 34.6 percent from 2015, when the township spent $100,825.

Ohio Grove Township has a population of 5,000.

Since 2001, the Ohio Grove Township budget has grown by 28.3 percent, from $105,790. The township population has grown 1328.6 percent over the same period, from 350.

Salaries accounted for 21.7 percent of township spending in 2016. Ohio Grove Township property taxpayers paid $29,412 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $3,268 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had seven full-time employees and one part-time employee, and spent $36,687.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
5,000
$135,707
$29,412
21.7
9
$3,268
2015
500
$100,825
$30,782
30.5
11
$2,798
2014
800
$222,324
$28,582
12.9
8
$3,573
2013
300
$232,508
$36,971
15.9
12
$3,081
2012
300
$289,584
$38,381
13.3
5
$7,676
2011
300
$300,210
$39,242
13.1
5
$7,848
2010
300
$327,497
$40,200
12.3
5
$8,040
2009
300
$235,968
$40,186
17
1
$40,186
2008
300
$271,293
$38,089
14
11
$3,463
2007
300
$147,813
$38,885
26.3
11
$3,535
2006
300
$164,543
$41,325
25.1
12
$3,444
2005
300
$181,761
$37,059
20.4
12
$3,088
2004
302
$163,313
$39,801
24.4
12
$3,317
2003
302
$132,117
$39,818
30.1
12
$3,318
2002
302
$241,570
$39,962
16.5
12
$3,330
2001
350
$105,790
$36,687
34.7
8
$4,586

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

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