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The price of local government in 2016: Morris Township

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The Morris Township budget was $172,016 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of seven percent from 2015, when the township spent $184,951.

Morris Township has a population of 7,781.

Since 2001, the Morris Township budget has fallen by 13.9 percent, from $199,680. The township population has fallen 22.2 percent over the same period, from 10,000.

Salaries accounted for 28.1 percent of township spending in 2016. Morris Township property taxpayers paid $48,357 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $5,373 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had six part-time employees and spent $52,817, or $8,803 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
7,781
$172,016
$48,357
28.1
9
$5,373
2015
7,781
$184,951
$45,484
24.6
8
$5,685
2014
7,781
$192,573
$47,340
24.6
8
$5,917
2013
7,110
$216,943
$35,121
16.2
9
$3,902
2012
7,781
$216,314
$49,453
22.9
8
$6,182
2011
7,781
$205,946
$50,160
24.4
8
$6,270
2010
7,781
$209,416
$46,124
22
8
$5,766
2009
4,065
$192,990
$45,800
23.7
7
$6,543
2008
7,781
$182,476
$47,432
26
7
$6,776
2007
7,781
$170,502
$49,459
29
7
$7,066
2006
7,781
$157,529
$48,418
30.7
7
$6,917
2005
7,781
$176,696
$47,528
26.9
7
$6,790
2004
7,781
$143,624
$49,955
34.8
7
$7,136
2003
7,781
$147,774
$49,694
33.6
7
$7,099
2002
10,000
unavailable
$51,156
unavailable
7
$7,308
2001
10,000
$199,680
$52,817
26.5
6
$8,803

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

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