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The price of local government in 2017: Cahokia Township

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The Cahokia Township budget was $140,760 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 58.1 percent from 2016, when the township spent $336,000.

Cahokia Township has a population of 3,378.

Since 2001, the Cahokia Township budget has fallen by 26.5 percent, from $191,581. The township population has fallen 0.3 percent over the same period, from 3,389.

Salaries accounted for 41.4 percent of township spending in 2017. Cahokia Township property taxpayers paid $58,246 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $4,854 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and four part-time employees, and spent $58,353.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
3,378
$140,760
$58,246
41.4
12
$4,854
2016
3,378
$336,000
$65,640
19.5
12
$5,470
2015
3,378
$329,342
$59,123
18
11
$5,375
2014
3,378
$271,148
$62,891
23.2
11
$5,717
2013
3,378
$316,332
$72,939
23.1
11
$6,631
2012
3,400
$436,000
$76,809
17.6
11
$6,983
2011
3,400
$452,000
$68,777
15.2
11
$6,252
2010
3,400
$456,000
$70,598
15.5
11
$6,418
2009
3,400
$468,000
$66,075
14.1
11
$6,007
2008
3,400
$468,000
$79,954
17.1
11
$7,269
2007
3,400
$488,000
$44,140
9
9
$4,904
2006
3,389
$312,500
$56,610
18.1
12
$4,718
2005
3,389
$325,000
$55,922
17.2
12
$4,660
2004
3,389
$335,000
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2003
3,389
$378,760
$49,605
13.1
5
$9,921
2002
3,389
$358,120
$56,594
15.8
5
$11,319
2001
3,389
$191,581
$58,353
30.5
5
$11,671

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

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