That's an increase of 15.5 percent from 2016, when the township spent $310,967.
New Berlin Township has a population of 1,346.
Since 2001, the New Berlin Township budget has grown by 4.9 percent, from $342,373. The township population has grown 8.5 percent over the same period, from 1,240.
Salaries accounted for 12.1 percent of township spending in 2017. New Berlin Township property taxpayers paid $43,301 for 16 part-time employees, or an average of $2,706 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had two full-time employees and 10 part-time employees, and spent $38,891.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.