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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Buck Township

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The Buck Township budget was $95,845 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 16 percent from 2015, when the township spent $82,622.

Buck Township has a population of 200.

Since 2001, the Buck Township budget has fallen by 33.6 percent, from $144,269. The township population has fallen 42.2 percent over the same period, from 346.

Salaries accounted for 31.4 percent of township spending in 2016. Buck Township property taxpayers paid $30,066 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $4,295 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 $31,393.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
200
$95,845
$30,066
31.4
7
$4,295
2015
200
$82,622
$31,856
38.6
7
$4,551
2014
350
$66,532
$33,185
49.9
7
$4,741
2013
327
$116,316
$29,507
25.4
7
$4,215
2012
350
$121,088
$31,856
26.3
7
$4,551
2010
350
$126,643
$30,741
24.3
7
$4,392
2009
350
$129,975
$27,617
21.2
7
$3,945
2008
370
$95,260
$27,612
29
7
$3,945
2005
370
$144,417
$29,437
20.4
7
$4,205
2004
370
$148,861
$30,343
20.4
7
$4,335
2003
368
$151,082
$30,796
20.4
7
$4,399
2002
368
$155,526
$29,728
19.1
7
$4,247
2001
346
$144,269
$31,393
21.8
2
$15,697

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

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