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The price of local government in 2017: Village of South Chicago Heights

Budget 09

The Village of South Chicago Heights budget was $8.39 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $5,956 per household.

That's a decrease of 32 percent from 2016, when the village spent $12.34 million, or $8,764 per household.

South Chicago Heights has 1,408 households and a population of 4,139.

Since 2001, the Village of South Chicago Heights budget has fallen by 13.5 percent, from $9.69 million. The village population has grown 4.3 percent over the same period, from 3,970.

Salaries accounted for 25.5 percent of village spending in 2017. South Chicago Heights property taxpayers paid $2.14 million for 27 full-time employees and 71 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 36 full-time employees and 72 part-time employees, and spent $1.87 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
4,139
$8,385,395
$2,141,083
25.5
98
$21,848
2016
4,139
$12,339,762
$2,063,725
16.7
94
$21,955
2015
5,139
$14,656,726
$2,022,253
13.8
100
$20,223
2014
4,039
$14,656,726
$2,003,645
13.7
97
$20,656
2013
4,139
$8,596,560
$1,984,060
23.1
93
$21,334
2012
4,139
$9,076,378
$2,029,649
22.4
96
$21,142
2011
4,139
$8,772,214
$2,305,591
26.3
90
$25,618
2010
4,139
$16,734,603
$3,403,898
20.3
98
$34,734
2009
3,970
$8,920,556
$2,488,437
27.9
155
$16,054
2008
3,970
$8,417,470
$2,028,476
24.1
117
$17,337
2007
3,970
$8,526,815
$1,921,415
22.5
120
$16,012
2006
3,873
$8,274,094
$1,899,034
23
99
$19,182
2005
3,911
$8,665,835
$1,986,319
22.9
111
$17,895
2004
3,960
$8,079,582
$1,988,957
24.6
129
$15,418
2003
3,975
$8,077,455
$1,854,541
23
118
$15,716
2002
3,970
$10,063,043
$1,820,524
18.1
116
$15,694
2001
3,970
$9,694,363
$1,866,711
19.3
108
$17,284

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

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