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The price of local government in 2016: Parker Township

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The Parker Township budget was $110,359 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of three percent from 2015, when the township spent $107,152.

Parker Township has a population of 109.

Since 2001, the Parker Township budget has fallen by 71 percent, from $380,773. The township population has fallen 55 percent over the same period, from 242.

Salaries accounted for 24.7 percent of township spending in 2016. Parker Township property taxpayers paid $27,260 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $2,272 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and one part-time employee, and spent $24,655.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
109
$110,359
$27,260
24.7
12
$2,272
2015
95
$107,152
$24,482
22.8
13
$1,883
2014
95
$127,541
$18,312
14.4
16
$1,144
2013
95
$130,010
$27,065
20.8
15
$1,804
2012
239
$150,529
$27,373
18.2
14
$1,955
2010
239
$154,584
$23,082
14.9
13
$1,776
2009
224
$118,663
$28,119
23.7
14
$2,008
2008
224
$129,848
$27,909
21.5
14
$1,994
2007
224
$147,328
$22,932
15.6
13
$1,764
2005
242
$175,568
$25,817
14.7
2
$12,908
2004
224
$226,996
$35,384
15.6
5
$7,077
2003
218
$226,549
$26,748
11.8
5
$5,350
2002
218
$218,400
$13,656
6.3
5
$2,731
2001
242
$380,773
$24,655
6.5
2
$12,328

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

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