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The price of local government in 2016: Blue Ridge Township

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The Blue Ridge Township budget was $830,475 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 16.5 percent from 2015, when the township spent $712,977.

Blue Ridge Township has a population of 1,463.

Since 2003, the Blue Ridge Township budget has fallen by 10.8 percent, from $931,339. The township population has grown 4.2 percent over the same period, from 1,404.

Salaries accounted for 18.5 percent of township spending in 2016. Blue Ridge Township property taxpayers paid $153,854 for one full-time employee and 16 part-time employees.

In 2003, the township had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $144,174.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,463
$830,475
$153,854
18.5
17
$9,050
2015
1,463
$712,977
$122,252
17.1
12
$10,188
2014
1,463
$731,289
$110,402
15.1
13
$8,492
2013
1,463
$920,887
$107,786
11.7
13
$8,291
2012
1,463
$906,422
$105,902
11.7
13
$8,146
2003
1,404
$931,339
$144,174
15.5
7
$20,596

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

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