That's an increase of 37 percent from 2015, when the township spent $489,924.
Bonus Township has a population of 4,321.
Since 2001, the Bonus Township budget has grown by 57.5 percent, from $426,099. The township population has grown 121.5 percent over the same period, from 1,951.
Salaries accounted for 14.6 percent of township spending in 2016. Bonus Township property taxpayers paid $97,950 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $7,535 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had four part-time employees and spent $60,665, or $15,166 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
4,321
$671,160
$97,950
14.6
13
$7,535
2015
4,263
$489,924
$98,082
20
13
$7,545
2014
4,263
$859,236
$101,300
11.8
13
$7,792
2013
2,662
$786,564
$90,572
11.5
13
$6,967
2012
2,852
$760,820
$84,683
11.1
13
$6,514
2011
2,852
$794,277
$86,803
10.9
14
$6,200
2010
2,852
$801,306
$87,449
10.9
14
$6,246
2009
2,852
$1,032,233
$75,556
7.3
8
$9,445
2008
2,852
$833,040
$86,715
10.4
7
$12,388
2007
2,852
$794,647
$82,140
10.3
7
$11,734
2006
2,662
$773,625
$88,246
11.4
7
$12,607
2005
2,662
$628,810
$67,178
10.7
4
$16,794
2004
2,662
$614,974
$68,487
11.1
4
$17,122
2003
1,951
$481,100
$61,545
12.8
4
$15,386
2002
1,951
$470,470
$61,320
13
4
$15,330
2001
1,951
$426,099
$60,665
14.2
4
$15,166
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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