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The price of local government in 2016: Springfield Township

Budget 13

The Springfield Township budget was $713,241 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 1.4 percent from 2015, when the township spent $723,447.

Springfield Township has a population of 6,245.

Since 2001, the Springfield Township budget has fallen by 1.5 percent, from $724,378. The township population has fallen 21.9 percent over the same period, from 8,000.

Salaries accounted for 37.7 percent of township spending in 2016. Springfield Township property taxpayers paid $268,806 for four full-time employees and 10 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had three full-time employees and 20 part-time employees, and spent $196,879.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
6,245
$713,241
$268,806
37.7
14
$19,200
2015
6,245
$723,447
$268,101
37.1
14
$19,150
2014
6,245
$990,363
$280,636
28.3
22
$12,756
2013
6,245
$781,687
$288,709
36.9
22
$13,123
2012
6,350
$788,925
$255,767
32.4
18
$14,209
2011
6,245
$912,101
$290,998
31.9
18
$16,167
2010
7,046
$925,755
$295,487
31.9
14
$21,106
2009
7,046
$808,807
$275,963
34.1
14
$19,712
2008
7,500
$906,973
$226,585
25
9
$25,176
2007
7,500
$1,009,097
$258,457
25.6
11
$23,496
2006
1,500
$409,913
$224,880
54.9
15
$14,992
2005
7,216
$1,040,941
$228,363
21.9
23
$9,929
2004
6,791
$738,809
$266,810
36.1
13
$20,524
2003
7,539
$799,204
$209,939
26.3
22
$9,543
2002
7,046
$830,060
$199,739
24.1
20
$9,987
2001
8,000
$724,378
$196,879
27.2
23
$8,560

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

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