That's an increase of 150.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $357,840.
Button Township has a population of 281.
Since 2001, the Button Township budget has grown by 249.1 percent, from $256,807. The township population has grown 12.4 percent over the same period, from 250.
Salaries accounted for 2.9 percent of township spending in 2017. Button Township property taxpayers paid $26,331 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $2,926 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $28,657.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
281
$896,609
$26,331
2.9
9
$2,926
2016
290
$357,840
$26,838
7.5
6
$4,473
2015
290
$780,181
$27,269
3.5
6
$4,545
2014
290
$293,620
$27,146
9.2
6
$4,524
2013
290
$197,265
$25,410
12.9
6
$4,235
2012
290
$153,766
$42,969
27.9
6
$7,161
2011
290
$143,131
$40,930
28.6
7
$5,847
2010
290
$154,133
$36,983
24
7
$5,283
2009
290
$143,504
$26,471
18.4
7
$3,782
2008
250
$124,511
$41,144
33
3
$13,715
2007
250
$145,882
$39,545
27.1
3
$13,182
2006
250
$139,706
$26,925
19.3
4
$6,731
2005
250
$128,908
$24,872
19.3
4
$6,218
2004
250
$131,534
$28,334
21.5
4
$7,084
2003
250
$133,430
$27,397
20.5
4
$6,849
2002
250
$126,301
$48,371
38.3
7
$6,910
2001
250
$256,807
$28,657
11.2
7
$4,094
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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