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The price of local government in 2017: Buckhorn Township

Budget 12

The Buckhorn Township budget was $51,338 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 187.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $17,850.

Buckhorn Township has a population of 124.

Since 2001, the Buckhorn Township budget has grown by 63 percent, from $31,501. The township population has grown 15.9 percent over the same period, from 107.

Salaries accounted for 20.9 percent of township spending in 2017. Buckhorn Township property taxpayers paid $10,710 for one part-time employee, or an average of $10,710 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $8,690.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
124
$51,338
$10,710
20.9
1
$10,710
2016
124
$17,850
$10,874
60.9
2
$5,437
2015
98
$20,326
$14,644
72
9
$1,627
2014
98
$19,264
$11,721
60.8
9
$1,302
2013
98
$19,448
$9,148
47
10
$915
2012
90
$61,040
$11,803
19.3
8
$1,475
2010
90
$63,785
$13,026
20.4
10
$1,303
2009
90
$60,980
$13,798
22.6
7
$1,971
2008
90
$51,440
$15,799
30.7
7
$2,257
2006
unavailable
$77,365
$19,636
25.4
10
$1,964
2005
100
$88,682
$14,968
16.9
10
$1,497
2004
100
$91,779
$19,082
20.8
10
$1,908
2003
108
$93,149
$11,761
12.6
10
$1,176
2002
95
$89,488
$9,755
10.9
8
$1,219
2001
107
$31,501
$8,690
27.6
7
$1,241

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

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