That's a decrease of 4.8 percent from 2015, when the township spent $510,952.
Phillips Township has a population of 1,258.
Since 2001, the Phillips Township budget has grown by 59.7 percent, from $304,377. The township population has fallen 62.9 percent over the same period, from 3,388.
Salaries accounted for 17.4 percent of township spending in 2016. Phillips Township property taxpayers paid $84,463 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $9,385 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had two full-time employees and spent $95,055, or $47,527 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,258
$486,192
$84,463
17.4
9
$9,385
2015
1,258
$510,952
$83,504
16.3
10
$8,350
2014
1,258
$520,407
$79,021
15.2
7
$11,289
2013
1,313
$460,512
$75,401
16.4
8
$9,425
2012
1,258
$450,933
$76,900
17.1
8
$9,612
2011
3,388
$461,097
$78,847
17.1
8
$9,856
2010
3,388
$430,806
$79,287
18.4
8
$9,911
2009
3,388
$431,555
$80,653
18.7
6
$13,442
2008
3,388
$419,153
$82,707
19.7
6
$13,785
2007
3,388
$408,334
$79,850
19.6
6
$13,308
2006
3,388
$412,500
$81,423
19.7
6
$13,570
2005
3,388
$399,880
$80,891
20.2
6
$13,482
2004
3,388
$405,350
$92,480
22.8
6
$15,413
2003
3,388
$382,500
$94,886
24.8
6
$15,814
2002
3,388
$430,234
$91,608
21.3
6
$15,268
2001
3,388
$304,377
$95,055
31.2
2
$47,527
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.