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The price of local government in 2016: Mt. Olive Township

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The Mt. Olive Township budget was $423,716 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 9.8 percent from 2015, when the township spent $469,728.

Mt. Olive Township has a population of 3,274.

Since 2001, the Mt. Olive Township budget has grown by 49.9 percent, from $282,660. The township population has fallen 4.9 percent over the same period, from 3,443.

Salaries accounted for 17 percent of township spending in 2016. Mt. Olive Township property taxpayers paid $72,070 for 17 part-time employees, or an average of $4,239 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and 18 part-time employees, and spent $86,596.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
3,274
$423,716
$72,070
17
17
$4,239
2015
3,274
$469,728
$75,206
16
12
$6,267
2014
3,274
$367,269
$68,239
18.6
12
$5,687
2013
3,274
$285,120
$69,325
24.3
19
$3,649
2012
3,443
$327,000
$66,899
20.5
21
$3,186
2011
3,443
$339,000
$69,909
20.6
16
$4,369
2010
3,443
$274,056
$71,462
26.1
16
$4,466
2009
3,443
$293,074
$80,970
27.6
16
$5,061
2008
3,443
$240,588
$83,343
34.6
17
$4,903
2007
3,443
$250,870
$72,301
28.8
17
$4,253
2006
3,443
$218,464
$64,063
29.3
12
$5,339
2005
3,443
$217,096
$66,329
30.6
12
$5,527
2004
3,443
$291,774
unavailable
unavailable
16
$0
2003
3,443
$235,056
$69,316
29.5
19
$3,648
2002
3,443
$258,916
$69,766
26.9
26
$2,683
2001
3,443
$282,660
$86,596
30.6
19
$4,558

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

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