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Sunday, May 12, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Ridge Township

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The Ridge Township budget was $162,257 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 0.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $163,343.

Ridge Township has a population of 454.

Since 2001, the Ridge Township budget has fallen by 9.1 percent, from $178,413. The township population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 15.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Ridge Township property taxpayers paid $25,255 for one full-time employee and 12 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 13 part-time employees and spent $54,650, or $4,204 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
454
$162,257
$25,255
15.6
13
$1,943
2016
454
$163,343
$33,006
20.2
17
$1,942
2015
454
$157,574
$33,990
21.6
16
$2,124
2014
454
$157,574
$31,338
19.9
16
$1,959
2013
454
$158,387
$31,164
19.7
15
$2,078
2012
454
$159,854
$31,146
19.5
17
$1,832
2011
454
$164,025
$34,752
21.2
15
$2,317
2010
454
$172,906
$33,620
19.4
3
$11,207
2009
454
$580,706
$27,173
4.7
12
$2,264
2008
454
$171,557
$26,120
15.2
15
$1,741
2007
454
$178,645
$31,482
17.6
10
$3,148
2006
454
$183,288
$42,064
22.9
3
$14,021
2005
454
$190,915
$61,653
32.3
5
$12,331
2004
454
$196,723
$70,853
36
13
$5,450
2003
454
$199,659
$68,904
34.5
14
$4,922
2002
454
$176,880
$53,511
30.3
13
$4,116
2001
454
$178,413
$54,650
30.6
13
$4,204

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

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