That's a decrease of 7.1 percent from 2015, when the township spent $4.61 million.
Wheeling Township has a population of 154,000.
Since 2001, the Wheeling Township budget has fallen by 1.7 percent, from $4.36 million. The township population has grown 2.7 percent over the same period, from 150,000.
Salaries accounted for 29.3 percent of township spending in 2016. Wheeling Township property taxpayers paid $1.26 million for 19 full-time employees and 28 part-time employees.
In 2001, the township had 11 full-time employees and 27 part-time employees, and spent $860,227.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
154,000
$4,284,697
$1,256,693
29.3
47
$26,738
2015
154,000
$4,612,133
$1,229,516
26.7
47
$26,160
2014
154,000
$4,148,564
$1,226,760
29.6
47
$26,101
2013
154,000
$4,198,375
$1,202,640
28.6
44
$27,333
2012
154,000
$4,532,830
$1,180,129
26
46
$25,655
2011
154,000
$4,970,797
$1,212,106
24.4
44
$27,548
2010
155,900
$4,489,565
$1,203,825
26.8
45
$26,752
2009
155,900
$4,234,324
$1,191,891
28.1
47
$25,359
2008
155,900
$4,522,321
$1,100,274
24.3
45
$24,451
2007
155,900
$5,187,174
$1,067,132
20.6
41
$26,028
2006
155,900
$5,146,670
$1,059,913
20.6
42
$25,236
2005
155,900
$4,886,869
$1,054,984
21.6
42
$25,119
2004
155,904
$5,062,265
$1,028,752
20.3
39
$26,378
2003
155,834
$4,685,254
$950,035
20.3
39
$24,360
2002
155,384
$4,457,823
$902,993
20.3
37
$24,405
2001
150,000
$4,357,538
$860,227
19.7
38
$22,638
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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