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Sunday, November 17, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Fox Lake

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The village of Fox Lake budget was $45.72 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $15,878.91 per household.

That's an increase of 69.2 percent from 2014 when the village spent $27.03 million, or $9,387.24 per household.

Fox Lake has 2,879 households and a population of 10,579.

Since 2001, the village of Fox Lake budget has grown by 37.1 percent, from $33.35 million. The village population has grown 15.3 percent over the same period, from 9,178.

Salaries accounted for 13.7 percent of village spending in 2015. Fox Lake property taxpayers paid $6.28 million for 91 full-time employees and 15 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 76 full-time employees and 14 part-time employees and spent $4.37 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
10,579
$45,715,370.82
$6,275,497.98
13.7
106
$59,202.81
2014
10,579
$27,025,872.33
$6,051,553.85
22.4
105
$57,633.84
2013
10,579
$28,606,774.56
$5,912,465.52
20.7
110
$53,749.68
2012
10,579
$35,003,658.14
$5,778,248.68
16.5
100
$57,782.48
2011
10,579
$37,267,072.92
$5,668,432.92
15.2
108
$52,485.48
2010
10,599
$30,845,873.25
$5,980,597.86
19.4
105
$56,958.07
2009
10,699
$39,766,784.85
$6,774,171.46
17
114
$59,422.55
2008
10,699
$27,206,173.80
$7,211,476.94
26.5
187
$38,564.04
2007
10,699
$26,812,520.28
$7,301,015.28
27.2
187
$39,042.86
2006
9,178
$26,378,173.20
$6,799,753.20
25.8
197
$34,516.51
2005
9,182
$26,725,702.64
$4,814,339.68
18
99
$48,629.69
2004
9,283
$28,211,945.25
$5,855,093.28
20.8
99
$59,142.35
2003
9,178
$26,957,792.40
$5,091,312.60
18.9
98
$51,952.16
2002
9,178
$31,566,419.55
$5,605,977.60
17.8
97
$57,793.58
2001
9,178
$33,351,263.56
$4,365,795.44
13.1
90
$48,508.83

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

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