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Thursday, April 18, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Zion Township

Budget 10

The Zion Township budget was $1.07 million for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 8.1 percent from 2016, when the township spent $1.16 million.

Zion Township has a population of 24,117.

Since 2001, the Zion Township budget has fallen by 37.1 percent, from $1.69 million. The township population has fallen 3.5 percent over the same period, from 25,000.

Salaries accounted for 38.1 percent of township spending in 2017. Zion Township property taxpayers paid $406,049 for seven full-time employees and 11 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 10 full-time employees and seven part-time employees, and spent $716,367.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
24,117
$1,066,217
$406,049
38.1
18
$22,558
2016
24,117
$1,160,164
$465,012
40.1
22
$21,137
2015
24,508
$1,323,247
$518,052
39.2
18
$28,781
2014
2,450
$1,582,732
$604,543
38.2
69
$8,761
2013
24,508
$2,052,329
$670,716
32.7
85
$7,891
2012
24,508
$2,097,255
$704,268
33.6
76
$9,267
2011
24,413
$2,898,818
$770,443
26.6
88
$8,755
2010
22,866
$2,237,556
$827,540
37
82
$10,092
2009
22,866
$3,415,053
$891,100
26.1
72
$12,376
2008
22,866
$2,229,953
$860,737
38.6
97
$8,874
2007
22,866
$2,022,428
$814,657
40.3
16
$50,916
2006
22,866
$2,000,169
$746,039
37.3
118
$6,322
2005
22,866
$2,274,155
$772,876
34
107
$7,223
2004
22,866
$2,172,720
$749,151
34.5
114
$6,572
2003
22,866
$1,920,247
$623,307
32.5
86
$7,248
2002
22,866
$1,748,436
$661,545
37.8
71
$9,318
2001
25,000
$1,694,642
$716,367
42.3
17
$42,139

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

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