That's an increase of 4.9 percent from 2015, when the township spent $288,022.
Brookside Township has a population of 5,000.
Since 2001, the Brookside Township budget has fallen by 55 percent, from $671,092. The township population has remained same.
Salaries accounted for 20.9 percent of township spending in 2016. Brookside Township property taxpayers paid $63,289 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $9,041 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 10 part-time employees and spent $76,619, or $7,662 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
5,000
$302,190
$63,289
20.9
7
$9,041
2015
5,000
$288,022
$63,892
22.2
9
$7,099
2014
5,000
$283,762
$64,051
22.6
9
$7,117
2013
5,000
$429,375
$64,125
14.9
9
$7,125
2012
5,000
$291,374
$50,295
17.3
9
$5,588
2007
5,000
$435,572
$57,887
13.3
10
$5,789
2006
5,000
$657,290
$74,628
11.4
10
$7,463
2005
5,000
$588,198
$75,387
12.8
10
$7,539
2004
5,000
$608,498
$70,656
11.6
10
$7,066
2003
5,000
$585,616
$78,351
13.4
10
$7,835
2002
5,000
$748,860
$55,083
7.4
10
$5,508
2001
5,000
$671,092
$76,619
11.4
10
$7,662
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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