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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Carson Township

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The Carson Township budget was $167,688 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 22.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $217,616.

Carson Township has a population of 150.

Since 2001, the Carson Township budget has grown by 148.4 percent, from $67,500. The township population has grown 1.4 percent over the same period, from 148.

Salaries accounted for 6.5 percent of township spending in 2017. Carson Township property taxpayers paid $10,857 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $1,357 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and two part-time employees, and spent $11,076.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
150
$167,688
$10,857
6.5
8
$1,357
2016
150
$217,616
$11,145
5.1
7
$1,592
2015
150
$78,701
$11,283
14.3
7
$1,612
2014
150
$28,580
$11,283
39.5
7
$1,612
2013
150
$29,928
$11,496
38.4
7
$1,642
2012
150
$40,650
$11,602
28.5
7
$1,657
2011
150
$43,195
$12,028
27.8
7
$1,718
2010
115
$35,411
$10,122
28.6
12
$844
2009
115
$34,193
$12,453
36.4
7
$1,779
2008
109
$31,274
$12,531
40.1
7
$1,790
2006
147
$12,370
$13,305
107.6
7
$1,901
2005
148
$34,983
$10,035
28.7
1
$10,035
2004
143
$34,840
$10,666
30.6
7
$1,524
2003
148
$23,166
$1,083
4.7
7
$155
2002
148
$34,000
$11,144
32.8
7
$1,592
2001
148
$67,500
$11,076
16.4
3
$3,692

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

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