That's an increase of eight percent from 2016, when the township spent $258,705.
Atkinson Township has a population of 1,274.
Since 2001, the Atkinson Township budget has grown by 50.8 percent, from $185,310. The township population has fallen 3.3 percent over the same period, from 1,318.
Salaries accounted for 14.2 percent of township spending in 2017. Atkinson Township property taxpayers paid $39,617 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $4,952 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had two full-time employees and spent $44,740, or $22,370 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,274
$279,368
$39,617
14.2
8
$4,952
2016
1,274
$258,705
$40,221
15.5
8
$5,028
2015
1,274
$309,520
$40,761
13.2
7
$5,823
2014
1,274
$262,297
$38,732
14.8
7
$5,533
2013
1,274
$264,409
$35,640
13.5
7
$5,091
2012
1,318
$269,230
$36,565
13.6
8
$4,571
2011
1,318
$226,565
$37,290
16.5
7
$5,327
2010
1,318
$304,182
$42,727
14
10
$4,273
2009
1,318
$296,975
$41,909
14.1
11
$3,810
2008
1,318
$248,976
$41,753
16.8
12
$3,479
2007
1,318
$274,566
$44,326
16.1
11
$4,030
2006
1,318
$224,625
$46,363
20.6
13
$3,566
2005
1,297
$277,550
$32,547
11.7
11
$2,959
2004
1,318
$251,271
$35,073
14
2
$17,537
2003
1,318
$194,929
$32,855
16.9
2
$16,427
2002
1,318
$241,514
$38,209
15.8
2
$19,104
2001
1,318
$185,310
$44,740
24.1
2
$22,370
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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