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The price of local government in 2017: Moweaqua Township

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The Moweaqua Township budget was $318,304 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 1.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $312,695.

Moweaqua Township has a population of 2,000.

Since 2001, the Moweaqua Township budget has grown by 33.8 percent, from $237,816. The township population has fallen 5.2 percent over the same period, from 2,110.

Salaries accounted for eight percent of township spending in 2017. Moweaqua Township property taxpayers paid $25,524 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $1,963 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had eight part-time employees and spent $26,764, or $3,346 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
2,000
$318,304
$25,524
8
13
$1,963
2016
2,000
$312,695
$30,852
9.9
12
$2,571
2015
2,000
$294,685
$32,063
10.9
15
$2,138
2014
2,000
$196,933
$29,886
15.2
11
$2,717
2013
2,000
$143,655
$30,462
21.2
11
$2,769
2011
2,000
$85,164
$19,931
23.4
7
$2,847
2005
2,110
$203,113
$28,967
14.3
8
$3,621
2004
2,110
$209,363
$23,967
11.4
8
$2,996
2003
2,110
$212,488
$27,412
12.9
8
$3,427
2002
2,110
$214,712
$29,869
13.9
8
$3,734
2001
2,110
$237,816
$26,764
11.3
8
$3,346

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

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