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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Abington Township

Budget 06

The Abington Township budget was $229,731 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $236,487.

Abington Township has a population of 382.

Since 2001, the Abington Township budget has grown by 21.3 percent, from $189,446. The township population has fallen 23.6 percent over the same period, from 500.

Salaries accounted for 16.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Abington Township property taxpayers paid $38,202 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $3,184 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and seven part-time employees, and spent $35,141.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
382
$229,731
$38,202
16.6
12
$3,184
2016
382
$236,487
$38,886
16.4
13
$2,991
2015
382
$239,419
$38,195
16
11
$3,472
2014
632
$239,014
$38,925
16.3
14
$2,780
2013
632
$234,236
$38,866
16.6
12
$3,239
2012
632
$236,296
$39,709
16.8
12
$3,309
2011
453
$242,074
$40,213
16.6
12
$3,351
2010
453
$236,959
$45,408
19.2
16
$2,838
2009
453
$219,541
$46,802
21.3
10
$4,680
2008
453
$167,573
$44,219
26.4
11
$4,020
2007
453
$185,473
$40,628
21.9
9
$4,514
2006
500
$186,996
$41,719
22.3
8
$5,215
2005
500
$180,618
$38,142
21.1
8
$4,768
2004
500
$182,022
$40,615
22.3
8
$5,077
2003
500
$182,285
$39,802
21.8
12
$3,317
2002
500
$175,046
$39,728
22.7
8
$4,966
2001
500
$189,446
$35,141
18.5
8
$4,393

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

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