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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Chestnut Township

Budget 05

The Chestnut Township budget was $277,637 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 14.2 percent from 2016, when the township spent $323,588.

Chestnut Township has a population of 250.

Since 2007, the Chestnut Township budget has grown by 16.8 percent, from $237,756. The township population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 8.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Chestnut Township property taxpayers paid $23,817 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $2,646 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2007, the township had 12 part-time employees and spent $25,167, or $2,097 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
250
$277,637
$23,817
8.6
9
$2,646
2016
250
$323,588
$24,518
7.6
9
$2,724
2015
250
$327,592
$24,751
7.6
9
$2,750
2014
250
$310,910
$25,175
8.1
10
$2,518
2013
250
$291,727
$25,650
8.8
9
$2,850
2012
250
$210,665
$25,016
11.9
9
$2,780
2011
250
$210,020
$26,386
12.6
9
$2,932
2010
250
$201,895
$27,204
13.5
8
$3,400
2008
250
$228,012
$27,483
12.1
9
$3,054
2007
250
$237,756
$25,167
10.6
12
$2,097

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

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