That's an increase of 0.9 percent from 2015, when the township spent $344,822.
Mason Township has a population of 1,364.
Since 2001, the Mason Township budget has grown by 24 percent, from $280,599. The township population has fallen 9.7 percent over the same period, from 1,510.
Salaries accounted for 12.3 percent of township spending in 2016. Mason Township property taxpayers paid $42,985 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $4,776 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 15 part-time employees and spent $37,450, or $2,497 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,364
$348,076
$42,985
12.3
9
$4,776
2015
1,364
$344,822
$43,011
12.5
9
$4,779
2014
1,364
$344,822
$44,542
12.9
9
$4,949
2013
1,364
$354,699
$45,446
12.8
9
$5,050
2012
1,364
$357,983
$44,956
12.6
9
$4,995
2011
1,510
$363,239
$44,018
12.1
12
$3,668
2010
1,510
$398,818
$45,674
11.5
14
$3,262
2009
1,510
$238,271
$40,350
16.9
13
$3,104
2008
1,510
$227,904
$31,121
13.7
13
$2,394
2007
1,510
$294,252
$38,209
13
13
$2,939
2006
1,510
$301,488
$42,856
14.2
24
$1,786
2005
1,510
$285,688
$38,979
13.6
14
$2,784
2004
1,510
$319,571
$41,391
13
14
$2,957
2003
1,510
$279,494
$36,573
13.1
15
$2,438
2002
1,510
$279,650
$34,678
12.4
13
$2,668
2001
1,510
$280,599
$37,450
13.3
15
$2,497
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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