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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Lake in the Hills

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The Village of Lake in the Hills budget was $28.53 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,900 per household.

That's a decrease of 6.1 percent from 2016, when the village spent $30.37 million, or $3,087 per household.

Lake in the Hills has 9,839 households and a population of 29,228.

Since 2001, the Village of Lake in the Hills budget has fallen by 12.9 percent, from $32.76 million. The village population has grown 17.4 percent over the same period, from 24,900.

Salaries accounted for 35.7 percent of village spending in 2017. Lake in the Hills property taxpayers paid $10.17 million for 106 full-time employees and 29 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 91 full-time employees and seven part-time employees, and spent $5.57 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
29,228
$28,528,906
$10,174,112
35.7
135
$75,364
2016
28,965
$30,369,218
$10,770,381
35.5
142
$75,848
2015
29,000
$30,376,412
$10,503,917
34.6
130
$80,799
2014
29,000
$30,621,842
$10,317,651
33.7
130
$79,367
2013
29,098
$32,859,724
$9,857,665
30
125
$78,861
2012
28,965
$26,156,839
$9,746,523
37.3
127
$76,744
2011
28,965
$32,013,171
$9,882,581
30.9
127
$77,816
2010
28,965
$32,823,724
$10,195,759
31.1
130
$78,429
2009
29,700
$47,079,841
$10,422,931
22.1
130
$80,176
2008
29,700
$33,511,936
$10,652,942
31.8
136
$78,330
2007
29,195
$39,217,315
$10,198,863
26
133
$76,683
2006
29,195
$46,231,575
$9,444,361
20.4
128
$73,784
2005
28,700
$37,700,741
$9,264,662
24.6
127
$72,950
2004
27,728
$37,957,121
$8,113,424
21.4
123
$65,963
2003
27,728
$41,262,713
$8,905,848
21.6
108
$82,462
2002
25,500
$32,413,465
$8,649,397
26.7
102
$84,798
2001
24,900
$32,762,524
$5,566,640
17
98
$56,802

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

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