That's a decrease of 3.1 percent from 2016, when the township spent $500,850.
Joshua Township has a population of 529.
Since 2001, the Joshua Township budget has grown by 17.7 percent, from $412,365. The township population has grown 6.9 percent over the same period, from 495.
Salaries accounted for 7.1 percent of township spending in 2017. Joshua Township property taxpayers paid $34,370 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $4,296 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and eight part-time employees, and spent $31,791.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.