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The price of local government in 2017: Wethersfield Township

Budget 10

The Wethersfield Township budget was $499,800 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 58.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $315,000.

Wethersfield Township has a population of 3,935.

Since 2001, the Wethersfield Township budget has grown by 9.9 percent, from $454,826. The township population has fallen 40.2 percent over the same period, from 6,582.

Salaries accounted for 19.1 percent of township spending in 2017. Wethersfield Township property taxpayers paid $95,629 for one full-time employee and three part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and nine part-time employees, and spent $76,098.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
3,935
$499,800
$95,629
19.1
4
$23,907
2016
3,935
$315,000
$76,128
24.2
4
$19,032
2015
3,935
$318,000
$75,380
23.7
4
$18,845
2014
3,935
$291,500
$91,243
31.3
4
$22,811
2013
3,935
$548,586
$83,731
15.3
3
$27,910
2012
3,845
$338,009
$82,896
24.5
12
$6,908
2011
3,845
$367,250
$96,959
26.4
10
$9,696
2010
3,845
$370,500
$62,700
16.9
10
$6,270
2009
3,845
$336,024
$63,412
18.9
10
$6,341
2008
3,845
$450,927
$93,434
20.7
10
$9,343
2007
3,485
$287,554
$84,320
29.3
10
$8,432
2006
3,845
$530,125
$81,594
15.4
9
$9,066
2005
3,845
$507,650
$81,931
16.1
12
$6,828
2004
3,845
$503,572
$90,362
17.9
13
$6,951
2003
3,845
$501,976
$85,305
17
11
$7,755
2002
3,845
$421,120
$93,122
22.1
11
$8,466
2001
6,582
$454,826
$76,098
16.7
10
$7,610

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

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