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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Hampton Township

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The Hampton Township budget was $1.44 million for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 3.1 percent from 2015, when the township spent $1.49 million.

Hampton Township has a population of 20,540.

Since 2001, the Hampton Township budget has fallen by 2.9 percent, from $1.48 million. The township population has grown 0.2 percent over the same period, from 20,500.

Salaries accounted for 31.9 percent of township spending in 2016. Hampton Township property taxpayers paid $459,841 for nine full-time employees, or an average of $51,093 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had nine full-time employees and four part-time employees, and spent $288,313.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
20,540
$1,440,575
$459,841
31.9
9
$51,093
2015
20,540
$1,487,104
$426,422
28.7
18
$23,690
2014
20,540
$1,389,472
$394,970
28.4
16
$24,686
2013
20,540
$1,378,116
$386,321
28
18
$21,462
2012
20,540
$1,380,196
$382,709
27.7
18
$21,262
2011
20,540
$1,392,841
$426,952
30.7
18
$23,720
2010
20,540
$1,700,975
$424,715
25
15
$28,314
2009
20,540
$1,850,087
$393,265
21.3
21
$18,727
2008
20,540
$1,567,027
$368,000
23.5
16
$23,000
2007
20,540
$1,574,953
$365,105
23.2
15
$24,340
2006
20,540
$1,457,100
$360,959
24.8
15
$24,064
2005
20,500
$1,531,959
$335,431
21.9
14
$23,959
2004
20,500
$1,520,223
$330,617
21.7
14
$23,615
2003
20,500
$1,520,162
$321,562
21.2
13
$24,736
2002
20,500
$1,550,284
$302,411
19.5
13
$23,262
2001
20,500
$1,484,202
$288,313
19.4
13
$22,178

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

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