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The price of local government in 2017: Rockbridge Township

Budget 11

The Rockbridge Township budget was $346,392 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 22.1 percent from 2016, when the township spent $444,465.

Rockbridge Township has a population of 2,057.

Since 2001, the Rockbridge Township budget has fallen by 25.8 percent, from $466,825. The township population has grown 16.4 percent over the same period, from 1,767.

Salaries accounted for 23.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Rockbridge Township property taxpayers paid $81,888 for one full-time employee and eight part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and nine part-time employees, and spent $71,217.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
2,057
$346,392
$81,888
23.6
9
$9,099
2016
2,057
$444,465
$81,213
18.3
9
$9,024
2015
1,633
$350,287
$77,878
22.2
9
$8,653
2014
1,633
$369,195
$76,794
20.8
9
$8,533
2013
1,633
$379,401
$77,595
20.5
10
$7,759
2012
1,633
$297,352
$81,080
27.3
3
$27,027
2011
1,780
$393,229
$81,982
20.8
3
$27,327
2010
1,964
$462,527
$82,096
17.7
9
$9,122
2009
1,964
$318,182
$73,389
23.1
9
$8,154
2008
1,767
$282,672
$78,202
27.7
10
$7,820
2007
1,767
$288,896
$80,324
27.8
10
$8,032
2006
1,767
$415,563
$81,139
19.5
11
$7,376
2005
1,767
$361,790
$77,805
21.5
11
$7,073
2004
1,767
$422,971
$81,641
19.3
11
$7,422
2003
1,767
$374,068
$81,937
21.9
10
$8,194
2002
1,767
$412,860
$82,316
19.9
10
$8,232
2001
1,767
$466,825
$71,217
15.3
10
$7,122

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

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