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Thursday, May 15, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Mt. Sterling Township

Budget 01

The Mt. Sterling Township budget was $253,746 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 28.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $355,375.

Mt. Sterling Township has a population of 2,800.

Since 2001, the Mt. Sterling Township budget has grown by 10.9 percent, from $228,863. The township population has fallen 50.9 percent over the same period, from 5,700.

Salaries accounted for 30 percent of township spending in 2017. Mt. Sterling Township property taxpayers paid $76,182 for two full-time employees and six part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had two full-time employees and seven part-time employees, and spent $99,397.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
2,800
$253,746
$76,182
30
8
$9,523
2016
2,800
$355,375
$81,011
22.8
9
$9,001
2015
2,800
$537,311
$85,700
15.9
9
$9,522
2014
6,860
$563,036
$81,764
14.5
9
$9,085
2013
6,937
$288,558
$78,170
27.1
9
$8,686
2012
5,500
$536,016
$79,090
14.8
9
$8,788
2011
5,526
$693,479
$87,999
12.7
9
$9,778
2010
4,900
$780,606
$96,490
12.4
9
$10,721
2009
3,500
$707,242
$95,830
13.5
9
$10,648
2008
3,500
$674,893
$68,320
10.1
8
$8,540
2007
3,500
$791,397
$79,831
10.1
8
$9,979
2006
3,350
$420,873
$77,750
18.5
8
$9,719
2005
3,400
$450,167
$92,039
20.4
8
$11,505
2004
3,400
$499,110
$83,115
16.7
8
$10,389
2003
3,400
$495,407
$27,749
5.6
8
$3,469
2002
3,408
$256,082
$99,834
39
8
$12,479
2001
5,700
$228,863
$99,397
43.4
9
$11,044

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

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