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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Peotone Township

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The Peotone Township budget was $662,545 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 2.2 percent from 2015, when the township spent $677,303.

Peotone Township has a population of 4,431.

Since 2001, the Peotone Township budget has grown by 12.2 percent, from $590,682. The township population has grown 12.5 percent over the same period, from 3,938.

Salaries accounted for 20.8 percent of township spending in 2016. Peotone Township property taxpayers paid $137,564 for 16 part-time employees, or an average of $8,598 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 11 part-time employees and spent $111,318, or $10,120 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
4,431
$662,545
$137,564
20.8
16
$8,598
2015
4,431
$677,303
$139,722
20.6
14
$9,980
2014
4,431
$674,702
$132,012
19.6
14
$9,429
2013
4,431
$641,484
$119,634
18.6
15
$7,976
2012
5,135
$635,298
$133,619
21
13
$10,278
2011
4,431
$647,650
$135,028
20.8
13
$10,387
2010
5,000
$605,331
$127,095
21
14
$9,078
2009
5,000
$514,226
$113,084
22
14
$8,077
2008
4,186
$512,627
$120,155
23.4
13
$9,243
2007
4,186
$459,026
$125,237
27.3
17
$7,367
2006
4,794
$488,894
$124,494
25.5
15
$8,300
2005
3,843
$986,435
$121,009
12.3
14
$8,644
2004
3,843
$976,975
$110,681
11.3
14
$7,906
2003
3,845
$683,106
$106,629
15.6
14
$7,616
2002
3,938
$365,141
$117,572
32.2
13
$9,044
2001
3,938
$590,682
$111,318
18.8
11
$10,120

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

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