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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Berwick Township

Budget 04

The Berwick Township budget was $242,339 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 17 percent from 2015, when the township spent $207,059.

Berwick Township has a population of 327.

Since 2001, the Berwick Township budget has grown by 108.7 percent, from $116,116. The township population has fallen 24.8 percent over the same period, from 435.

Salaries accounted for 15.3 percent of township spending in 2016. Berwick Township property taxpayers paid $37,178 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $3,718 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and two part-time employees, and spent $41,974.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
327
$242,339
$37,178
15.3
10
$3,718
2015
327
$207,059
$37,302
18
9
$4,145
2014
327
$228,747
$39,747
17.4
13
$3,057
2013
327
$284,903
$41,561
14.6
11
$3,778
2012
327
$255,987
$43,385
16.9
11
$3,944
2011
379
$331,418
$50,043
15.1
15
$3,336
2010
379
$100,393
$46,848
46.7
14
$3,346
2009
357
$146,654
$38,480
26.2
9
$4,276
2008
357
$115,913
$33,842
29.2
9
$3,760
2007
373
$120,867
$39,905
33
11
$3,628
2006
359
$109,905
$41,534
37.8
13
$3,195
2005
435
$109,403
$42,322
38.7
3
$14,107
2004
435
$119,529
$37,267
31.2
3
$12,422
2003
435
$120,484
$31,280
26
3
$10,427
2002
435
$124,384
$32,018
25.7
3
$10,673
2001
435
$116,116
$41,974
36.1
3
$13,991

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

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