That's a decrease of 23 percent from 2015, when the township spent $408,736.
Orion Township has a population of 1,007.
Since 2001, the Orion Township budget has fallen by 21.7 percent, from $401,986. The township population has fallen 8.9 percent over the same period, from 1,105.
Salaries accounted for 10.9 percent of township spending in 2016. Orion Township property taxpayers paid $34,284 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $2,857 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and nine part-time employees, and spent $41,035.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,007
$314,669
$34,284
10.9
12
$2,857
2015
1,007
$408,736
$51,287
12.5
12
$4,274
2014
1,007
$337,852
$49,453
14.6
12
$4,121
2013
1,007
$1,164,365
$47,734
4.1
12
$3,978
2012
1,007
$404,336
$38,240
9.5
12
$3,187
2011
1,003
$749,005
$50,087
6.7
12
$4,174
2010
1,003
$614,726
$50,531
8.2
12
$4,211
2009
1,110
$367,731
$54,392
14.8
16
$3,400
2008
1,110
$471,627
$68,199
14.5
16
$4,262
2007
1,110
$491,477
$67,887
13.8
16
$4,243
2006
1,110
$497,313
$59,195
11.9
16
$3,700
2005
1,110
$421,070
$46,768
11.1
13
$3,597
2004
1,105
$498,681
$48,224
9.7
12
$4,019
2003
1,105
$362,984
$51,656
14.2
12
$4,305
2002
1,105
$446,835
$39,998
9
12
$3,333
2001
1,105
$401,986
$41,035
10.2
10
$4,104
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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