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Friday, November 22, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: DeWitt Township

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The DeWitt Township budget was $163,000 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $167,866.

DeWitt Township has a population of 465.

Since 2001, the DeWitt Township budget has fallen by 60.2 percent, from $410,025. The township population has grown 11.5 percent over the same period, from 417.

Salaries accounted for 27.9 percent of township spending in 2017. DeWitt Township property taxpayers paid $45,497 for one full-time employee and 12 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had eight part-time employees and spent $35,074, or $4,384 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
465
$163,000
$45,497
27.9
13
$3,500
2016
465
$167,866
$38,851
23.1
6
$6,475
2015
465
$169,688
$40,450
23.8
6
$6,742
2014
465
$241,872
$41,575
17.2
5
$8,315
2013
465
$243,597
$41,268
16.9
5
$8,254
2012
465
$171,983
$36,782
21.4
5
$7,356
2011
465
$177,165
$36,002
20.3
5
$7,200
2010
465
$268,223
$44,520
16.6
5
$8,904
2009
465
$271,990
$54,171
19.9
5
$10,834
2008
465
$153,274
$25,038
16.3
5
$5,008
2007
465
$247,006
$26,971
10.9
5
$5,394
2006
465
$273,750
$26,114
9.5
5
$5,223
2005
465
$273,845
$39,459
14.4
5
$7,892
2004
465
$282,271
$27,411
9.7
5
$5,482
2003
417
$323,408
$34,713
10.7
8
$4,339
2002
417
$404,250
$35,626
8.8
8
$4,453
2001
417
$410,025
$35,074
8.6
8
$4,384

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

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