The village of Wauconda's budget was $13.67 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $3,518.85 per household.
That's a decrease of 8.6 percent from 2014, when the village spent $14.95 million, or $3,848.37 per household.
Wauconda has 3,886 households and a population of 13,896.
Since 2001, the village of Wauconda budget has fallen by 20.7 percent, from $17.25 million. The village population has grown 47 percent over the same period, from 9,450.
Salaries accounted for 40.8 percent of village spending in 2015. Wauconda property taxpayers paid $5.58 million for 63 full-time employees and 10 part-time employees.
In 2001, the village had 54 full-time employees and nine part-time employees and spent $3.21 million.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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