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Monday, December 23, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Waukegan Township

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The Waukegan Township budget was $5.61 million for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 3.8 percent from 2015, when the township spent $5.41 million.

Waukegan Township has a population of 90,625.

Since 2001, the Waukegan Township budget has grown by 13.7 percent, from $4.94 million. The township population has fallen 2.3 percent over the same period, from 92,805.

Salaries accounted for 41.9 percent of township spending in 2016. Waukegan Township property taxpayers paid $2.35 million for 39 full-time employees and 46 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 45 full-time employees and 30 part-time employees, and spent $2.21 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
90,625
$5,614,166
$2,354,325
41.9
85
$27,698
2015
90,625
$5,406,610
$2,401,342
44.4
95
$25,277
2014
90,625
$5,471,164
$2,312,294
42.3
93
$24,863
2013
96,039
$5,461,668
$2,188,875
40.1
86
$25,452
2012
96,039
$6,335,412
$2,113,648
33.4
85
$24,866
2011
96,039
$5,675,171
$2,189,573
38.6
86
$25,460
2010
92,850
$5,585,972
$2,163,689
38.7
82
$26,386
2009
92,805
$5,459,951
$2,329,399
42.7
99
$23,529
2008
92,805
$5,695,151
$2,096,248
36.8
98
$21,390
2007
92,805
$5,430,098
$2,088,093
38.5
80
$26,101
2006
92,805
$5,228,163
$2,172,415
41.6
80
$27,155
2005
92,805
$5,221,320
$2,262,276
43.3
73
$30,990
2004
92,805
$5,565,536
$2,301,650
41.4
85
$27,078
2003
92,805
$5,524,959
$2,382,166
43.1
77
$30,937
2002
92,805
$5,302,682
$2,271,751
42.8
88
$25,815
2001
92,805
$4,938,845
$2,206,583
44.7
75
$29,421

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

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