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The price of local government in 2017: City of Palos Hills

Budget 09

The City of Palos Hills budget was $14.32 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $2,018 per household.

That's a decrease of 0.7 percent from 2016, when the city spent $14.41 million, or $2,032 per household.

Palos Hills has 7,095 households and a population of 17,484.

Since 2001, the City of Palos Hills budget has grown by 4.2 percent, from $13.74 million. The city population has fallen one percent over the same period, from 17,665.

Salaries accounted for 43.4 percent of city spending in 2017. Palos Hills property taxpayers paid $6.22 million for 68 full-time employees and 78 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 72 full-time employees and 100 part-time employees, and spent $4.69 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
17,484
$14,315,919
$6,218,367
43.4
146
$42,592
2016
17,652
$14,413,606
$6,193,510
43
141
$43,926
2015
17,627
$14,015,509
$6,125,065
43.7
116
$52,802
2014
17,484
$13,278,273
$6,100,417
45.9
96
$63,546
2013
17,484
$12,994,792
$5,776,908
44.5
96
$60,176
2012
17,484
$13,019,914
$5,609,213
43.1
96
$58,429
2011
17,484
$13,346,862
$5,873,995
44
100
$58,740
2010
17,665
$13,426,866
$6,289,414
46.8
129
$48,755
2009
17,665
$13,363,547
$6,374,840
47.7
147
$43,366
2008
17,665
$13,363,547
$5,639,625
42.2
147
$38,365
2007
17,665
$12,902,629
$5,856,922
45.4
145
$40,393
2006
17,665
$13,632,866
$6,001,163
44
141
$42,561
2005
17,399
$7,381,582
$6,127,956
83
134
$45,731
2004
17,665
$11,742,403
$6,439,362
54.8
174
$37,008
2003
17,665
$14,983,086
$6,268,236
41.8
174
$36,024
2002
17,655
$13,007,487
$5,923,418
45.5
160
$37,021
2001
17,665
$13,743,635
$4,687,112
34.1
172
$27,251

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

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