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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Sargent Township

Budget 12

The Sargent Township budget was $337,824 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 1.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $331,800.

Sargent Township has a population of 286.

Since 2001, the Sargent Township budget has fallen by 24.5 percent, from $447,388. The township population has fallen 15.9 percent over the same period, from 340.

Salaries accounted for 18.8 percent of township spending in 2017. Sargent Township property taxpayers paid $63,385 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $4,876 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had two full-time employees and five part-time employees, and spent $66,827.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
286
$337,824
$63,385
18.8
13
$4,876
2016
286
$331,800
$72,629
21.9
11
$6,603
2015
286
$333,370
$73,230
22
11
$6,657
2014
286
$301,570
$69,712
23.1
8
$8,714
2013
286
$328,744
$69,552
21.2
11
$6,323
2012
293
$316,801
$57,981
18.3
8
$7,248
2011
293
$348,805
$71,586
20.5
8
$8,948
2010
293
$351,892
$73,074
20.8
8
$9,134
2009
293
$382,192
$75,731
19.8
9
$8,415
2008
293
$382,192
$73,936
19.3
9
$8,215
2007
293
$398,525
$72,297
18.1
8
$9,037
2006
293
$408,325
$72,310
17.7
11
$6,574
2005
293
$396,430
$74,617
18.8
11
$6,783
2004
293
$411,096
$74,918
18.2
7
$10,703
2003
293
$417,232
$73,267
17.6
7
$10,467
2002
293
$278,333
$73,455
26.4
7
$10,494
2001
340
$447,388
$66,827
14.9
7
$9,547

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

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