That's a decrease of 2.5 percent from 2015, when the township spent $233,008.
Big Spring Township has a population of 699.
Since 2001, the Big Spring Township budget has grown by 1.9 percent, from $222,826. The township population has remained same.
Salaries accounted for 12.2 percent of township spending in 2016. Big Spring Township property taxpayers paid $27,678 for three part-time employees, or an average of $9,226 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had six part-time employees and spent $35,536, or $5,923 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
699
$227,107
$27,678
12.2
3
$9,226
2015
699
$233,008
$24,298
10.4
4
$6,075
2014
699
$233,104
$28,904
12.4
3
$9,635
2013
699
$231,466
$23,522
10.2
3
$7,841
2012
699
$221,032
$21,220
9.6
3
$7,073
2011
699
$175,315
$24,253
13.8
5
$4,851
2010
699
$210,203
$21,537
10.2
4
$5,384
2009
699
$161,252
$23,922
14.8
3
$7,974
2008
699
$227,863
$21,955
9.6
3
$7,318
2007
699
$284,726
$25,175
8.8
5
$5,035
2006
699
$264,350
$27,546
10.4
4
$6,887
2005
699
$326,323
$32,561
10
7
$4,652
2004
699
$241,495
$27,245
11.3
6
$4,541
2003
699
$290,578
$29,928
10.3
6
$4,988
2002
699
$245,356
$29,988
12.2
6
$4,998
2001
699
$222,826
$35,536
15.9
6
$5,923
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.