That's an increase of 0.1 percent from 2016, when the township spent $760,677.
Coloma Township has a population of 11,371.
Since 2004, the Coloma Township budget has grown by 49.5 percent, from $509,559. The township population has fallen 3.6 percent over the same period, from 11,800.
Salaries accounted for 17.4 percent of township spending in 2017. Coloma Township property taxpayers paid $132,202 for 19 part-time employees, or an average of $6,958 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2004, the township had 15 part-time employees and spent $109,813, or $7,321 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
11,371
$761,577
$132,202
17.4
19
$6,958
2016
11,371
$760,677
$147,714
19.4
19
$7,774
2015
11,371
$822,430
$148,063
18
21
$7,051
2014
11,371
$1,182,247
$112,329
9.5
21
$5,349
2013
11,371
$1,150,989
$137,291
11.9
26
$5,280
2009
11,800
$964,708
$127,363
13.2
22
$5,789
2008
11,800
$562,304
$127,436
22.7
23
$5,541
2004
11,800
$509,559
$109,813
21.6
15
$7,321
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.