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The price of local government in 2017: Kerton Township

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The Kerton Township budget was $27,703 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 10.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $31,079.

Kerton Township has a population of 117.

Since 2001, the Kerton Township budget has fallen by 61.5 percent, from $71,909. The township population has fallen 41.5 percent over the same period, from 200.

Salaries accounted for 33.5 percent of township spending in 2017. Kerton Township property taxpayers paid $9,273 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $843 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 10 part-time employees and spent $10,545, or $1,054 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
117
$27,703
$9,273
33.5
11
$843
2016
121
$31,079
$12,036
38.7
11
$1,094
2015
121
$33,113
$11,689
35.3
11
$1,063
2014
121
$108,650
$10,676
9.8
11
$971
2013
121
$79,580
$7,889
9.9
10
$789
2012
121
$75,210
$7,979
10.6
10
$798
2011
121
$100,966
$7,757
7.7
10
$776
2010
200
$51,870
$9,046
17.4
10
$905
2009
200
$113,198
$9,670
8.5
10
$967
2008
200
$77,543
$9,727
12.5
10
$973
2006
205
$249,764
$9,019
3.6
11
$820
2005
205
$259,754
$9,380
3.6
11
$853
2004
250
$160,947
$12,857
8
13
$989
2003
220
$142,513
$25,440
17.9
11
$2,313
2002
200
$223,990
$11,228
5
13
$864
2001
200
$71,909
$10,545
14.7
10
$1,054

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

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