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Thursday, April 3, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Plainfield

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The Village of Plainfield budget was $53.92 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $3,483 per household.

That's a decrease of 0.6 percent from 2016, when the village spent $54.27 million, or $3,506 per household.

Plainfield has 15,480 households and a population of 42,138.

Since 2001, the Village of Plainfield budget has fallen by 12.2 percent, from $61.41 million. The village population has grown 223.2 percent over the same period, from 13,038.

Salaries accounted for 22 percent of village spending in 2017. Plainfield property taxpayers paid $11.86 million for 128 full-time employees and 18 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 79 full-time employees and 18 part-time employees, and spent $5.07 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
42,138
$53,916,529
$11,857,521
22
146
$81,216
2016
42,138
$54,265,234
$11,861,888
21.9
146
$81,246
2015
42,138
$52,629,351
$11,767,050
22.4
144
$81,716
2014
39,581
$45,958,612
$11,314,807
24.6
145
$78,033
2013
39,581
$45,155,219
$11,093,004
24.6
141
$78,674
2012
39,581
$46,359,793
$10,771,823
23.2
152
$70,867
2011
39,581
$46,392,132
$10,936,093
23.6
157
$69,657
2010
37,334
$66,172,189
$12,078,522
18.3
147
$82,167
2009
37,334
$96,618,086
$13,317,290
13.8
164
$81,203
2008
37,334
$96,618,086
$12,510,520
12.9
205
$61,027
2007
30,314
$75,729,078
$11,590,747
15.3
177
$65,484
2006
30,314
$74,122,520
$10,886,811
14.7
178
$61,162
2005
20,673
$92,192,931
$9,839,818
10.7
156
$63,076
2004
20,673
$66,152,667
$8,672,768
13.1
145
$59,812
2003
13,038
$59,259,585
$6,998,216
11.8
128
$54,674
2002
13,038
$74,997,019
$5,733,000
7.6
104
$55,125
2001
13,038
$61,406,479
$5,072,271
8.3
97
$52,291

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

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