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The price of local government in 2016: Button Township

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The Button Township budget was $357,840 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 54.1 percent from 2015, when the township spent $780,181.

Button Township has a population of 290.

Since 2001, the Button Township budget has grown by 39.3 percent, from $256,807. The township population has grown 16 percent over the same period, from 250.

Salaries accounted for 7.5 percent of township spending in 2016. Button Township property taxpayers paid $26,838 for one full-time employee and five part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $28,657.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
290
$357,840
$26,838
7.5
6
$4,473
2015
290
$780,181
$27,269
3.5
6
$4,545
2014
290
$293,620
$27,146
9.2
6
$4,524
2013
290
$197,265
$25,410
12.9
6
$4,235
2012
290
$153,766
$42,969
27.9
6
$7,161
2011
290
$143,131
$40,930
28.6
7
$5,847
2010
290
$154,133
$36,983
24
7
$5,283
2009
290
$143,504
$26,471
18.4
7
$3,782
2008
250
$124,511
$41,144
33
3
$13,715
2007
250
$145,882
$39,545
27.1
3
$13,182
2006
250
$139,706
$26,925
19.3
4
$6,731
2005
250
$128,908
$24,872
19.3
4
$6,218
2004
250
$131,534
$28,334
21.5
4
$7,084
2003
250
$133,430
$27,397
20.5
4
$6,849
2002
250
$126,301
$48,371
38.3
7
$6,910
2001
250
$256,807
$28,657
11.2
7
$4,094

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

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