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The price of local government in 2016: Sonora Township

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The Sonora Township budget was $222,511 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 9.1 percent from 2015, when the township spent $244,752.

Sonora Township has a population of 490.

Since 2001, the Sonora Township budget has fallen by 25.4 percent, from $298,342. The township population has fallen 10.9 percent over the same period, from 550.

Salaries accounted for 12.9 percent of township spending in 2016. Sonora Township property taxpayers paid $28,718 for one full-time employee and seven part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and 14 part-time employees, and spent $37,995.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
490
$222,511
$28,718
12.9
8
$3,590
2015
490
$244,752
$30,846
12.6
8
$3,856
2014
500
$200,417
$41,085
20.5
10
$4,108
2013
500
$189,578
$35,939
19
10
$3,594
2012
495
$269,499
$30,144
11.2
10
$3,014
2011
495
$182,478
$37,335
20.5
10
$3,734
2010
495
$168,959
$36,486
21.6
9
$4,054
2009
500
$202,373
$36,522
18
9
$4,058
2008
489
$161,903
$33,366
20.6
11
$3,033
2007
550
$167,511
$34,689
20.7
11
$3,154
2006
550
$165,115
$40,024
24.2
14
$2,859
2005
550
$186,069
$37,765
20.3
12
$3,147
2004
492
$305,512
$41,091
13.4
10
$4,109
2003
492
$323,137
$39,086
12.1
10
$3,909
2002
489
$330,190
$42,769
13
17
$2,516
2001
550
$298,342
$37,995
12.7
15
$2,533

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

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