That's a decrease of 3.7 percent from 2015, when the township spent $419,495.
Scales Mound Township has a population of 622.
Since 2002, the Scales Mound Township budget has grown by 128.8 percent, from $176,513. The township population has fallen 2.5 percent over the same period, from 638.
Salaries accounted for 5.8 percent of township spending in 2016. Scales Mound Township property taxpayers paid $23,459 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $1,805 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2002, the township had seven full-time employees and spent $14,837, or $2,120 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
622
$403,846
$23,459
5.8
13
$1,805
2015
622
$419,495
$23,546
5.6
13
$1,811
2014
622
$380,090
$21,846
5.7
11
$1,986
2013
622
$641,120
$24,001
3.7
11
$2,182
2012
622
$525,380
$22,425
4.3
6
$3,737
2011
622
$591,894
$21,913
3.7
6
$3,652
2010
620
$300,732
$17,121
5.7
6
$2,853
2009
620
$423,189
$17,314
4.1
6
$2,886
2008
620
$268,535
$17,998
6.7
6
$3,000
2007
620
$143,411
$16,086
11.2
6
$2,681
2006
620
$167,083
$15,000
9
6
$2,500
2005
620
$2,618,669
$14,316
0.5
6
$2,386
2004
638
$303,905
$14,761
4.9
7
$2,109
2003
638
$246,629
$14,296
5.8
7
$2,042
2002
638
$176,513
$14,837
8.4
7
$2,120
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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