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Sunday, December 22, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: South Wheatland Township

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The South Wheatland Township budget was $633,420 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 3.3 percent from 2016, when the township spent $613,249.

South Wheatland Township has a population of 4,185.

Since 2001, the South Wheatland Township budget has fallen by 36 percent, from $989,385. The township population has fallen 3.6 percent over the same period, from 4,340.

Salaries accounted for 18.1 percent of township spending in 2017. South Wheatland Township property taxpayers paid $114,445 for two full-time employees and 12 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had six full-time employees and nine part-time employees, and spent $106,920.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
4,185
$633,420
$114,445
18.1
14
$8,175
2016
4,185
$613,249
$100,230
16.3
10
$10,023
2015
4,185
$644,046
$90,540
14.1
15
$6,036
2014
4,185
$622,750
$95,453
15.3
15
$6,364
2013
4,185
$697,194
$95,511
13.7
15
$6,367
2012
4,185
$700,380
$94,465
13.5
15
$6,298
2011
4,185
$811,202
$93,156
11.5
15
$6,210
2010
4,185
$581,037
$86,478
14.9
15
$5,765
2009
4,185
$547,853
$92,328
16.9
15
$6,155
2008
4,185
$531,473
$89,824
16.9
15
$5,988
2007
4,185
$579,195
$102,370
17.7
15
$6,825
2006
4,185
$593,438
$99,783
16.8
15
$6,652
2005
4,160
$1,151,410
$99,990
8.7
15
$6,666
2004
4,160
$1,149,782
$109,572
9.5
15
$7,305
2003
4,160
$1,183,064
$110,125
9.3
17
$6,478
2002
4,160
$1,167,880
$99,207
8.5
15
$6,614
2001
4,340
$989,385
$106,920
10.8
15
$7,128

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

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