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Thursday, April 25, 2024

The price of local government: City of Crest Hill

Budget 10

The City of Crest Hill budget was $35.97 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $6,037.27 per household.

That's a decrease of 18.7 percent from 2014, when the city spent $44.22 million, or $7,422.74 per household.

Crest Hill has 5,958 households and a population of 20,837.

Since 2001, the City of Crest Hill budget has grown by 261.4 percent, from $9.95 million. The city population has grown 56.3 percent over the same period, from 13,329.

Salaries accounted for 13.7 percent of city spending in 2015. Crest Hill property taxpayers paid $4.91 million for 60 full-time employees and 30 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 48 full-time employees and four part-time employees, and spent $3.26 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
20,837
$35,970,071.52
$4,910,552.34
13.7
90
$54,561.69
2014
20,783
$44,224,676.37
$4,623,903.81
10.5
90
$51,376.70
2013
20,837
$47,135,567.44
$4,474,716.48
9.5
85
$52,643.72
2012
20,943
$19,551,907.76
$4,438,076.90
22.7
89
$49,866.03
2011
20,837
$16,578,518.40
$4,396,600.08
26.5
60
$73,276.66
2010
20,552
$16,936,102.50
$4,339,003.32
25.6
61
$71,131.20
2009
20,451
$17,266,908.50
$4,350,409.60
25.2
62
$70,167.89
2008
20,463
$17,210,295.50
$4,384,369.49
25.5
62
$70,715.63
2007
20,516
$17,387,721
$3,929,709.42
22.6
62
$63,382.41
2006
18,163
$16,391,700
$4,057,376.40
24.8
58
$69,954.76
2005
18,143
$14,416,240
$3,795,229.56
26.3
61
$62,216.87
2004
13,169
$3,967,008
$3,549,860.70
89.5
64
$55,466.57
2003
13,329
$11,680,548
$3,762,087.12
32.2
58
$64,863.57
2002
13,329
$12,114,798.75
$3,618,056.70
29.9
58
$62,380.28
2001
13,329
$9,952,159.50
$3,261,906.98
32.8
52
$62,728.98

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

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