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The price of local government in 2017: Wallace Township

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The Wallace Township budget was $296,846 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 17.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $252,228.

Wallace Township has a population of 491.

Since 2001, the Wallace Township budget has grown by 58.4 percent, from $187,440. The township population has fallen 3.3 percent over the same period, from 508.

Salaries accounted for 8.7 percent of township spending in 2017. Wallace Township property taxpayers paid $25,806 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $2,581 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 14 part-time employees and spent $28,788, or $2,056 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
491
$296,846
$25,806
8.7
10
$2,581
2016
491
$252,228
$43,034
17.1
8
$5,379
2015
491
$252,473
$46,953
18.6
8
$5,869
2014
491
$245,745
$31,268
12.7
11
$2,843
2013
491
$234,602
$34,911
14.9
10
$3,491
2012
491
$245,227
$36,270
14.8
10
$3,627
2011
491
$201,739
$42,530
21.1
9
$4,726
2010
530
$179,892
$41,193
22.9
13
$3,169
2009
530
$183,573
$39,101
21.3
12
$3,258
2008
530
$285,246
$36,703
12.9
11
$3,337
2007
530
$168,238
$35,459
21.1
10
$3,546
2006
530
$173,250
$35,213
20.3
10
$3,521
2005
530
$172,072
$36,998
21.5
9
$4,111
2004
530
$208,978
$40,361
19.3
11
$3,669
2003
530
$212,550
$38,903
18.3
10
$3,890
2002
530
$184,800
$24,160
13.1
9
$2,684
2001
508
$187,440
$28,788
15.4
14
$2,056

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

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