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Thursday, July 17, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Winthrop Harbor

Budget 08

The Village of Winthrop Harbor budget was $7.66 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $3,063 per household.

That's a decrease of one percent from 2016, when the village spent $7.73 million, or $3,093 per household.

Winthrop Harbor has 2,500 households and a population of 6,700.

Since 2001, the Village of Winthrop Harbor budget has grown by 21.2 percent, from $6.32 million. The village population has fallen 6.9 percent over the same period, from 7,200.

Salaries accounted for 37.3 percent of village spending in 2017. Winthrop Harbor property taxpayers paid $2.86 million for 30 full-time employees and 110 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 28 full-time employees and 75 part-time employees, and spent $2.38 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
6,700
$7,657,047
$2,856,283
37.3
140
$20,402
2016
6,700
$7,732,500
$3,008,249
38.9
105
$28,650
2015
6,700
$7,792,445
$2,835,416
36.4
105
$27,004
2014
6,700
$7,014,962
$2,817,492
40.2
111
$25,383
2013
6,700
$7,304,742
$2,738,116
37.5
111
$24,668
2012
6,700
$6,971,354
$2,654,370
38.1
105
$25,280
2011
6,742
$6,911,358
$2,565,750
37.1
95
$27,008
2010
6,700
$7,169,408
$2,677,308
37.3
95
$28,182
2009
6,700
$8,021,052
$2,852,091
35.6
105
$27,163
2008
6,700
$8,195,850
$2,865,915
35
105
$27,294
2007
6,700
$8,366,701
$2,833,348
33.9
111
$25,526
2006
6,700
$7,682,075
$2,715,105
35.3
111
$24,460
2005
6,853
$6,579,199
$2,586,758
39.3
83
$31,166
2004
6,700
$7,854,992
$2,616,473
33.3
83
$31,524
2003
6,700
$7,843,062
$2,542,498
32.4
96
$26,484
2002
6,670
$8,019,554
$2,541,353
31.7
73
$34,813
2001
7,200
$6,319,950
$2,380,771
37.7
103
$23,114

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

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