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The price of local government in 2016: Linder Township

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The Linder Township budget was $189,086 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 2.7 percent from 2015, when the township spent $194,362.

Linder Township has a population of 345.

Since 2001, the Linder Township budget has fallen by 26.3 percent, from $256,502. The township population has grown 11.7 percent over the same period, from 309.

Salaries accounted for 16.6 percent of township spending in 2016. Linder Township property taxpayers paid $31,391 for three part-time employees, or an average of $10,464 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and 10 part-time employees, and spent $38,221.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
345
$189,086
$31,391
16.6
3
$10,464
2015
345
$194,362
$41,971
21.6
7
$5,996
2014
315
$180,166
$28,622
15.9
7
$4,089
2013
315
$169,535
$27,579
16.3
7
$3,940
2012
313
$181,499
$29,008
16
7
$4,144
2011
313
$160,936
$29,843
18.5
5
$5,969
2010
311
$162,360
$33,249
20.5
5
$6,650
2009
309
$194,579
$35,112
18
5
$7,022
2008
300
$174,391
$36,213
20.8
4
$9,053
2007
300
$211,996
$35,789
16.9
4
$8,947
2006
300
$245,509
$36,064
14.7
11
$3,279
2005
300
$290,952
$38,059
13.1
11
$3,460
2004
309
$301,847
$44,871
14.9
11
$4,079
2003
300
$245,174
$39,254
16
11
$3,569
2002
300
$243,209
$32,032
13.2
11
$2,912
2001
309
$256,502
$38,221
14.9
11
$3,475

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

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