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The price of local government in 2016: Loraine Township

Budget 08

The Loraine Township budget was $99,540 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 29 percent from 2015, when the township spent $140,238.

Loraine Township has a population of 290.

Since 2001, the Loraine Township budget has fallen by 16.6 percent, from $119,379. The township population has fallen 20.3 percent over the same period, from 364.

Salaries accounted for 19.9 percent of township spending in 2016. Loraine Township property taxpayers paid $19,797 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $1,650 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 15 part-time employees and spent $22,368, or $1,491 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
290
$99,540
$19,797
19.9
12
$1,650
2015
290
$140,238
$25,669
18.3
12
$2,139
2014
290
$110,028
$20,649
18.8
12
$1,721
2013
290
$98,388
$20,786
21.1
11
$1,890
2012
290
$84,606
$23,321
27.6
14
$1,666
2011
320
$85,711
$24,071
28.1
10
$2,407
2010
320
$160,216
$22,829
14.2
10
$2,283
2009
500
$78,624
$11,536
14.7
4
$2,884
2008
320
$118,053
$15,336
13
10
$1,534
2007
315
$123,220
$14,417
11.7
10
$1,442
2006
315
$128,419
$14,188
11
10
$1,419
2005
315
$117,140
$21,141
18
14
$1,510
2004
364
$158,593
$22,170
14
21
$1,056
2003
364
$114,335
$20,165
17.6
13
$1,551
2002
364
$117,698
$19,793
16.8
13
$1,523
2001
364
$119,379
$22,368
18.7
15
$1,491

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

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