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The price of local government in 2016: Ashland Township

Budget 07

The Ashland Township budget was $100,632 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 11.8 percent from 2015, when the township spent $90,021.

Ashland Township has a population of 1,440.

Since 2001, the Ashland Township budget has fallen by 2.9 percent, from $103,660. The township population has grown 2.9 percent over the same period, from 1,400.

Salaries accounted for 37.1 percent of township spending in 2016. Ashland Township property taxpayers paid $37,291 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $4,143 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had three part-time employees and spent $16,834, or $5,611 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,440
$100,632
$37,291
37.1
9
$4,143
2015
1,440
$90,021
$33,030
36.7
9
$3,670
2014
1,440
$99,004
$30,401
30.7
9
$3,378
2013
1,440
$84,240
$31,217
37.1
9
$3,469
2012
1,440
$92,214
$33,313
36.1
11
$3,028
2011
1,440
$118,198
$67,224
56.9
11
$6,111
2010
1,440
$237,120
$31,771
13.4
11
$2,888
2009
1,440
$149,877
$26,722
17.8
11
$2,429
2008
1,440
$97,110
$24,182
24.9
11
$2,198
2007
1,440
$93,940
$27,133
28.9
10
$2,713
2006
1,440
$95,625
$24,984
26.1
9
$2,776
2005
1,440
$98,410
$25,188
25.6
11
$2,290
2004
1,430
$95,676
$28,947
30.3
8
$3,618
2003
1,400
$98,056
$25,752
26.3
9
$2,861
2002
1,400
$100,940
$27,958
27.7
4
$6,990
2001
1,400
$103,660
$16,834
16.2
3
$5,611

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

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