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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Weller Township

Budget 05

The Weller Township budget was $431,545 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 17.5 percent from 2015, when the township spent $367,152.

Weller Township has a population of 422.

Since 2001, the Weller Township budget has grown by 146.6 percent, from $175,006. The township population has fallen 11 percent over the same period, from 474.

Salaries accounted for 10.2 percent of township spending in 2016. Weller Township property taxpayers paid $44,250 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $4,023 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 11 part-time employees and spent $48,709, or $4,428 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
422
$431,545
$44,250
10.3
11
$4,023
2015
422
$367,152
$34,094
9.3
10
$3,409
2014
422
$282,352
$40,874
14.5
10
$4,087
2013
422
$157,144
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2012
422
$273,567
$30,359
11.1
10
$3,036
2011
422
$197,660
$38,601
19.5
10
$3,860
2010
640
$187,530
$31,607
16.9
13
$2,431
2009
640
$192,465
$37,040
19.2
10
$3,704
2008
640
$192,465
$38,182
19.8
9
$4,242
2007
640
$167,434
$39,607
23.7
10
$3,961
2006
640
$150,450
$40,959
27.2
10
$4,096
2005
640
$190,548
$46,301
24.3
2
$23,150
2004
474
$524,347
$48,177
9.2
13
$3,706
2003
474
$193,800
$40,985
21.1
11
$3,726
2002
474
$188,860
$49,837
26.4
10
$4,984
2001
474
$175,006
$48,709
27.8
11
$4,428

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

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