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The price of local government in 2016: Henry Township

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The Henry Township budget was $361,358 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 7.5 percent from 2015, when the township spent $390,663.

Henry Township has a population of 2,700.

Since 2001, the Henry Township budget has grown by 46.7 percent, from $246,377. The township population has fallen 6.2 percent over the same period, from 2,877.

Salaries accounted for 9.3 percent of township spending in 2016. Henry Township property taxpayers paid $33,679 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $4,210 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 14 part-time employees and spent $42,911, or $3,065 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
2,700
$361,358
$33,679
9.3
8
$4,210
2015
2,700
$390,663
$41,910
10.7
8
$5,239
2014
2,700
$375,032
$43,202
11.5
8
$5,400
2013
2,877
$326,103
$45,587
14
8
$5,698
2012
2,700
$329,122
$35,330
10.7
8
$4,416
2011
2,700
$314,769
$41,359
13.1
8
$5,170
2010
2,877
$600,672
$30,842
5.1
8
$3,855
2009
2,877
$616,479
$40,570
6.6
8
$5,071
2008
2,877
$324,742
$39,379
12.1
8
$4,922
2007
2,877
$285,441
$39,321
13.8
8
$4,915
2006
2,865
$292,459
$35,861
12.3
14
$2,562
2005
2,539
$222,463
$37,833
17
22
$1,720
2004
2,865
$62,524
$18,970
30.3
11
$1,725
2003
2,540
$431,256
$28,784
6.7
11
$2,617
2002
2,540
$195,244
$20,999
10.8
11
$1,909
2001
2,877
$246,377
$42,911
17.4
14
$3,065

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

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