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The price of local government in 2017: Wilcox Township

Budget 10

The Wilcox Township budget was $82,620 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 29.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $117,416.

Wilcox Township has a population of 150.

Since 2001, the Wilcox Township budget has grown by 23.9 percent, from $66,668. The township population has fallen 8.5 percent over the same period, from 164.

Salaries accounted for 23 percent of township spending in 2017. Wilcox Township property taxpayers paid $18,977 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $2,711 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 12 part-time employees and spent $23,849, or $1,987 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
150
$82,620
$18,977
23
7
$2,711
2016
150
$117,416
$17,529
14.9
8
$2,191
2015
150
$111,221
$16,577
14.9
10
$1,658
2014
150
$104,543
$17,399
16.6
10
$1,740
2013
150
$139,179
$18,580
13.3
12
$1,548
2012
150
$101,172
$20,334
20.1
9
$2,259
2010
160
$128,350
$18,454
14.4
10
$1,845
2009
165
$200,553
$18,341
9.1
7
$2,620
2008
165
$146,426
$18,644
12.7
10
$1,864
2007
170
$55,048
$20,120
36.6
9
$2,236
2006
170
$56,090
$20,629
36.8
8
$2,579
2005
168
$62,049
$20,422
32.9
9
$2,269
2004
168
$59,630
$22,122
37.1
13
$1,702
2003
168
$62,446
$21,238
34
11
$1,931
2002
164
$67,522
$24,536
36.3
10
$2,454
2001
164
$66,668
$23,849
35.8
12
$1,987

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

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