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The price of local government in 2017: La Harpe Township

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The La Harpe Township budget was $521,730 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 0.1 percent from 2016, when the township spent $522,113.

La Harpe Township has a population of 1,617.

Since 2001, the La Harpe Township budget has grown by 146.1 percent, from $212,006. The township population has fallen 7.6 percent over the same period, from 1,750.

Salaries accounted for 13.1 percent of township spending in 2017. La Harpe Township property taxpayers paid $68,403 for one full-time employee and eight part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and 10 part-time employees, and spent $62,169.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,617
$521,730
$68,403
13.1
9
$7,600
2016
1,617
$522,113
$68,187
13.1
8
$8,523
2015
1,617
$490,401
$66,687
13.6
8
$8,336
2014
1,617
$311,155
$65,519
21.1
10
$6,552
2013
1,617
$280,030
$64,514
23
9
$7,168
2012
1,617
$269,334
$63,961
23.7
9
$7,107
2011
1,617
$213,751
$63,834
29.9
11
$5,803
2010
1,617
$195,740
$61,304
31.3
9
$6,812
2009
1,617
$301,509
$61,762
20.5
9
$6,862
2008
1,617
$329,004
$58,107
17.7
9
$6,456
2007
1,617
$385,276
$64,184
16.7
9
$7,132
2006
1,617
$374,725
$60,279
16.1
9
$6,698
2005
1,750
$389,714
$67,194
17.2
9
$7,466
2004
1,750
$348,936
$65,408
18.7
9
$7,268
2003
1,750
$344,352
$70,649
20.5
10
$7,065
2002
1,750
$301,277
$64,043
21.3
11
$5,822
2001
1,750
$212,006
$62,169
29.3
11
$5,652

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

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