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The price of local government in 2016: Goshen Township

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The Goshen Township budget was $290,705 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 0.9 percent from 2015, when the township spent $293,474.

Goshen Township has a population of 686.

Since 2001, the Goshen Township budget has grown by 198.9 percent, from $97,270. The township population has fallen 8.7 percent over the same period, from 751.

Salaries accounted for 11.4 percent of township spending in 2016. Goshen Township property taxpayers paid $33,036 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $4,719 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had three full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $40,981.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
686
$290,705
$33,036
11.4
7
$4,719
2015
686
$293,474
$36,255
12.4
7
$5,179
2014
751
$136,338
$34,503
25.3
7
$4,929
2013
751
$126,181
$30,646
24.3
7
$4,378
2012
751
$157,940
$30,651
19.4
7
$4,379
2011
751
$174,006
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2010
751
$116,680
$32,285
27.7
7
$4,612
2009
751
$122,426
$25,814
21.1
7
$3,688
2008
751
$72,280
$37,289
51.6
7
$5,327
2007
751
$99,553
$38,883
39.1
7
$5,555
2006
751
$206,731
$39,839
19.3
7
$5,691
2005
751
$207,201
$42,714
20.6
7
$6,102
2004
751
$96,061
$41,032
42.7
6
$6,839
2003
751
$99,103
$35,835
36.2
5
$7,167
2002
751
$90,394
$34,762
38.5
5
$6,952
2001
751
$97,270
$40,981
42.1
5
$8,196

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

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