That's an increase of 5.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $423,716.
Mt. Olive Township has a population of 3,274.
Since 2001, the Mt. Olive Township budget has grown by 58.4 percent, from $282,660. The township population has fallen 4.9 percent over the same period, from 3,443.
Salaries accounted for 15.2 percent of township spending in 2017. Mt. Olive Township property taxpayers paid $68,156 for 17 part-time employees, or an average of $4,009 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.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.