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The price of local government in 2016: Dover Township

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The Dover Township budget was $456,855 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 42.4 percent from 2015, when the township spent $793,092.

Dover Township has a population of 550.

Since 2001, the Dover Township budget has grown by 88.5 percent, from $242,394. The township population has fallen six percent over the same period, from 585.

Salaries accounted for 9.6 percent of township spending in 2016. Dover Township property taxpayers paid $43,708 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $5,464 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and seven part-time employees, and spent $51,288.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
550
$456,855
$43,708
9.6
8
$5,464
2015
550
$793,092
$53,090
6.7
9
$5,899
2014
550
$487,282
$57,365
11.8
9
$6,374
2013
550
$489,078
$45,483
9.3
9
$5,054
2012
550
$458,672
$46,456
10.1
9
$5,162
2011
550
$467,142
$53,240
11.4
9
$5,916
2010
585
$395,808
$51,902
13.1
9
$5,767
2009
585
$333,626
$39,076
11.7
9
$4,342
2008
585
$269,802
$32,528
12.1
9
$3,614
2007
585
$281,942
$31,993
11.3
9
$3,555
2006
585
$244,500
$27,961
11.4
10
$2,796
2005
585
$292,370
$38,301
13.1
12
$3,192
2004
585
$321,868
$49,333
15.3
9
$5,481
2003
585
$340,000
$53,122
15.6
8
$6,640
2002
585
$336,140
$52,402
15.6
8
$6,550
2001
585
$242,394
$51,288
21.2
8
$6,411

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

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