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The price of local government in 2017: Centralia Township

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The Centralia Township budget was $990,624 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 4.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $944,528.

Centralia Township has a population of 15,072.

Since 2001, the Centralia Township budget has fallen by 20.7 percent, from $1.25 million. The township population has fallen 8.8 percent over the same period, from 16,533.

Salaries accounted for 31.8 percent of township spending in 2017. Centralia Township property taxpayers paid $314,795 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $24,215 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 13 full-time employees and nine part-time employees, and spent $401,931.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
15,072
$990,624
$314,795
31.8
13
$24,215
2016
15,072
$944,528
$326,543
34.6
14
$23,324
2015
15,072
$1,042,775
$347,124
33.3
15
$23,142
2014
15,042
$1,091,800
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2013
15,042
$1,048,248
$347,704
33.2
14
$24,836
2012
15,042
$1,086,839
$381,383
35.1
14
$27,242
2011
16,533
$1,181,435
$403,358
34.1
17
$23,727
2010
16,533
$1,304,175
$401,028
30.7
17
$23,590
2009
16,533
$1,364,696
$398,025
29.2
17
$23,413
2008
16,533
$1,252,247
$378,752
30.2
17
$22,280
2002
16,533
$1,316,475
$408,989
31.1
20
$20,449
2001
16,533
$1,249,516
$401,931
32.2
22
$18,270

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

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