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The price of local government in 2016: Colchester Township

Budget 13

The Colchester Township budget was $31,900 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 1.5 percent from 2015, when the township spent $31,426.

Colchester Township has a population of 2,325.

Since 2001, the Colchester Township budget has fallen by 30 percent, from $45,582. The township population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 34.6 percent of township spending in 2016. Colchester Township property taxpayers paid $11,046 for six part-time employees, or an average of $1,841 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had four part-time employees and spent $15,231, or $3,808 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
2,325
$31,900
$11,046
34.6
6
$1,841
2015
2,325
$31,426
$12,762
40.6
4
$3,191
2014
2,325
$26,076
$11,639
44.6
4
$2,910
2013
2,325
$26,568
$14,537
54.7
4
$3,634
2012
2,325
$26,988
$14,759
54.7
4
$3,690
2011
2,325
$26,770
$17,379
64.9
4
$4,345
2010
2,325
$49,077
$11,058
22.5
4
$2,765
2009
2,325
$21,119
$12,946
61.3
4
$3,237
2008
2,325
$36,036
$10,015
27.8
4
$2,504
2007
2,325
$37,576
$9,815
26.1
4
$2,454
2006
2,325
$38,500
$15,819
41.1
4
$3,955
2005
2,325
$59,280
$6,955
11.7
4
$1,739
2004
2,325
$54,054
$7,638
14.1
4
$1,910
2003
2,325
$54,861
$7,616
13.9
4
$1,904
2002
2,325
$72,716
$7,840
10.8
4
$1,960
2001
2,325
$45,582
$15,231
33.4
4
$3,808

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

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