That's an increase of 95.2 percent from 2016, when the township spent $300,893.
Hire Township has a population of 218.
Since 2001, the Hire Township budget has grown by 95.1 percent, from $301,040. The township population has fallen 19 percent over the same period, from 269.
Salaries accounted for 7.1 percent of township spending in 2017. Hire Township property taxpayers paid $41,731 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $4,637 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had eight part-time employees and spent $41,515, or $5,189 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
218
$587,281
$41,731
7.1
9
$4,637
2016
229
$300,893
$27,720
9.2
9
$3,080
2015
229
$613,740
$42,416
6.9
8
$5,302
2014
229
$476,470
$43,814
9.2
10
$4,381
2013
229
$488,160
$41,677
8.5
8
$5,210
2012
229
$506,850
$41,638
8.2
8
$5,205
2010
221
$157,092
$43,548
27.7
8
$5,444
2009
246
$332,280
$41,301
12.4
8
$5,163
2008
246
$327,524
$39,710
12.1
8
$4,964
2007
246
$333,426
$42,755
12.8
8
$5,344
2006
246
$333,370
$43,225
13
8
$5,403
2005
246
$333,653
$40,147
12
8
$5,018
2004
246
$327,893
$43,151
13.2
8
$5,394
2003
246
$272,911
$42,731
15.7
8
$5,341
2002
246
$326,199
$43,319
13.3
9
$4,813
2001
269
$301,040
$41,515
13.8
8
$5,189
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.