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Thursday, April 25, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Towanda Township

Budget 04

The Towanda Township budget was $1.01 million for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 11.6 percent from 2015, when the township spent $1.15 million.

Towanda Township has a population of 1,296.

Since 2001, the Towanda Township budget has grown by 107.7 percent, from $487,834. The township population has grown 26.6 percent over the same period, from 1,024.

Salaries accounted for six percent of township spending in 2016. Towanda Township property taxpayers paid $61,335 for 17 part-time employees, or an average of $3,608 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had 15 part-time employees and spent $51,870, or $3,458 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,296
$1,013,172
$61,335
6.1
17
$3,608
2015
1,296
$1,145,782
$51,458
4.5
16
$3,216
2014
1,296
$1,527,382
$53,637
3.5
16
$3,352
2013
1,296
$1,628,020
$44,952
2.8
12
$3,746
2012
1,296
$3,132,812
$57,103
1.8
12
$4,759
2011
1,296
$1,164,124
$64,770
5.6
13
$4,982
2010
1,024
$1,174,426
$63,367
5.4
13
$4,874
2009
1,024
$1,120,688
$53,504
4.8
13
$4,116
2008
1,024
$1,330,773
$49,046
3.7
13
$3,773
2007
1,024
$969,687
$52,459
5.4
11
$4,769
2006
1,024
$1,005,179
$53,294
5.3
3
$17,765
2005
493
$929,110
$75,564
8.1
6
$12,594
2004
1,025
$989,188
$71,658
7.2
17
$4,215
2003
1,024
$704,514
$65,057
9.2
14
$4,647
2002
1,024
$399,350
$59,265
14.8
16
$3,704
2001
1,024
$487,834
$51,870
10.6
15
$3,458

All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.

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