That's an increase of 39.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $486,192.
Phillips Township has a population of 1,258.
Since 2001, the Phillips Township budget has grown by 123.5 percent, from $304,377. The township population has fallen 62.9 percent over the same period, from 3,388.
Salaries accounted for 12.3 percent of township spending in 2017. Phillips Township property taxpayers paid $83,361 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $9,262 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.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.