That's an increase of 13.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $56.24 million, or $2,486 per household.
Oak Lawn has 22,623 households and a population of 56,690.
Since 2001, the Village of Oak Lawn budget has fallen by 43.8 percent, from $113.51 million. The village population has grown 0.9 percent over the same period, from 56,182.
Salaries accounted for 50.3 percent of village spending in 2017. Oak Lawn property taxpayers paid $32.07 million for 295 full-time employees, or an average of $108,713 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had 403 full-time employees and 78 part-time employees, and spent $32.69 million.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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