That's an increase of 6.9 percent from 2015, when the township spent $2.16 million.
Stookey Township has a population of 10,000.
Since 2001, the Stookey Township budget has grown by 57.4 percent, from $1.46 million. The township population has fallen 1.8 percent over the same period, from 10,185.
Salaries accounted for 19 percent of township spending in 2016. Stookey Township property taxpayers paid $437,770 for six full-time employees, or an average of $72,962 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had nine full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $523,768.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
10,000
$2,306,325
$437,770
19
6
$72,962
2015
10,000
$2,157,524
$411,346
19.1
9
$45,705
2014
10,185
$2,200,984
$437,244
19.9
9
$48,583
2013
10,185
$1,835,892
$432,097
23.5
14
$30,864
2012
10,185
$1,882,321
$476,684
25.3
21
$22,699
2011
10,185
$2,236,676
$579,229
25.9
21
$27,582
2010
10,185
$3,538,674
$495,944
14
17
$29,173
2009
10,185
$3,980,457
$522,614
13.1
21
$24,886
2008
10,185
$22,849,047
$451,399
2
21
$21,495
2007
10,185
$2,298,358
$495,829
21.6
16
$30,989
2006
10,185
$1,934,063
$426,163
22
16
$26,635
2005
10,185
$1,669,200
$176,540
10.6
19
$9,292
2004
10,185
$1,108,602
$547,724
49.4
19
$28,828
2003
10,737
$1,456,019
$533,378
36.6
19
$28,073
2002
10,185
$1,522,780
$575,305
37.8
12
$47,942
2001
10,185
$1,464,994
$523,768
35.8
11
$47,615
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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