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The price of local government in 2016: Chatham Township

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The Chatham Township budget was $1.16 million for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 0.4 percent from 2015, when the township spent $1.17 million.

Chatham Township has a population of 6,978.

Since 2008, the Chatham Township budget has grown by 51.5 percent, from $766,350. The township population has fallen 3.1 percent over the same period, from 7,200.

Salaries accounted for 14.7 percent of township spending in 2016. Chatham Township property taxpayers paid $170,796 for two full-time employees and 16 part-time employees.

In 2008, the township had three full-time employees and 17 part-time employees, and spent $187,423.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
6,978
$1,160,739
$170,796
14.7
18
$9,489
2015
6,978
$1,165,633
$173,082
14.8
17
$10,181
2014
6,978
$966,523
$190,027
19.7
14
$13,573
2013
6,978
$1,067,757
$210,973
19.8
7
$30,139
2012
6,978
$1,401,965
$200,795
14.3
19
$10,568
2011
8,000
$904,000
$160,837
17.8
21
$7,659
2010
8,000
$912,000
$220,782
24.2
21
$10,513
2009
7,500
$1,136,759
$198,609
17.5
21
$9,458
2008
7,200
$766,350
$187,423
24.5
20
$9,371

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

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