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The price of local government in 2017: Zuma Township

Budget 06

The Zuma Township budget was $235,528 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 24 percent from 2016, when the township spent $309,750.

Zuma Township has a population of 757.

Since 2001, the Zuma Township budget has grown by 19.7 percent, from $196,823. The township population has grown 10.2 percent over the same period, from 687.

Salaries accounted for eight percent of township spending in 2017. Zuma Township property taxpayers paid $18,778 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $1,878 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 10 part-time employees and spent $16,177, or $1,618 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
757
$235,528
$18,778
8
10
$1,878
2016
757
$309,750
$20,552
6.6
10
$2,055
2015
752
$223,777
$20,966
9.4
10
$2,097
2014
752
$180,264
$20,492
11.4
10
$2,049
2013
700
$209,137
$19,830
9.5
10
$1,983
2012
700
$182,466
$20,834
11.4
10
$2,083
2011
700
$189,614
$21,633
11.4
10
$2,163
2010
700
$183,483
$21,790
11.9
10
$2,179
2009
700
$177,899
$22,363
12.6
10
$2,236
2008
700
$232,830
$20,070
8.6
10
$2,007
2007
700
$214,005
$20,928
9.8
10
$2,093
2006
700
$265,131
$21,430
8.1
10
$2,143
2005
700
$198,567
$21,965
11.1
10
$2,196
2004
700
$204,677
$24,825
12.1
10
$2,482
2003
700
$215,121
$25,195
11.7
10
$2,520
2002
700
$149,036
$25,026
16.8
10
$2,503
2001
687
$196,823
$16,177
8.2
10
$1,618

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

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