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Thursday, April 25, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Wesley Township

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The Wesley Township budget was $379,660 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 7.5 percent from 2016, when the township spent $410,498.

Wesley Township has a population of 2,241.

Since 2001, the Wesley Township budget has grown by 34.3 percent, from $282,732. The township population has fallen 24.5 percent over the same period, from 2,970.

Salaries accounted for 21.3 percent of township spending in 2017. Wesley Township property taxpayers paid $80,898 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $5,778 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 12 part-time employees and spent $50,055, or $4,171 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
2,241
$379,660
$80,898
21.3
14
$5,778
2016
2,568
$410,498
$95,101
23.2
22
$4,323
2015
2,568
$357,199
$81,671
22.9
21
$3,889
2014
2,568
$393,486
$57,511
14.6
21
$2,739
2013
2,568
$499,108
$52,514
10.5
21
$2,501
2012
2,568
$439,289
$51,173
11.6
21
$2,437
2011
2,568
$399,530
$51,131
12.8
21
$2,435
2010
2,568
$387,071
$44,665
11.5
21
$2,127
2009
2,568
$782,730
$50,763
6.5
21
$2,417
2008
2,960
$424,710
$61,826
14.6
18
$3,435
2007
2,960
$516,287
$51,039
9.9
18
$2,835
2006
2,597
$529,361
$51,116
9.7
18
$2,840
2005
2,597
$781,950
$57,825
7.4
18
$3,213
2004
2,597
$396,452
$56,827
14.3
18
$3,157
2003
2,460
$628,048
$50,589
8.1
21
$2,409
2002
2,568
$395,170
$61,005
15.4
25
$2,440
2001
2,970
$282,732
$50,055
17.7
12
$4,171

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

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