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Monday, March 31, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Palatine

Budget 01

The Village of Palatine budget was $136.09 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $5,489.17 per household.

That's a decrease of 5.1 percent from 2014, when the village spent $143.40 million, or $5,783.99 per household.

Palatine has 24,793 households and a population of 69,350.

Since 2001, the Village of Palatine budget has grown by 41.4 percent, from $96.22 million. The village population has grown 5.9 percent over the same period, from 65,479.

Salaries accounted for 24.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Palatine property taxpayers paid $33.01 million for 339 full-time employees and 38 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 374 full-time employees and 65 part-time employees, and spent $28.81 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
69,350
$136,092,943.08
$33,006,528.84
24.3
377
$87,550.47
2014
69,350
$143,402,388.60
$31,837,426.69
22.2
364
$87,465.45
2013
68,557
$124,113,258.88
$31,806,072.48
25.6
378
$84,143.04
2012
68,557
$112,222,115.20
$31,507,622.32
28.1
396
$79,564.70
2011
68,557
$135,992,755.44
$31,701,964.68
23.3
254
$124,810.88
2010
68,557
$140,506,414.05
$33,402,824.85
23.8
376
$88,837.30
2009
65,920
$137,805,460.55
$32,973,343.50
23.9
420
$78,507.96
2008
65,920
$149,076,198.07
$32,522,988.78
21.8
420
$77,435.68
2007
68,000
$124,778,618.64
$31,828,785.30
25.5
416
$76,511.50
2006
68,000
$111,128,121.60
$30,721,669.20
27.6
384
$80,004.34
2005
65,920
$101,990,458.80
$29,914,665.20
29.3
376
$79,560.27
2004
65,920
$122,441,734.17
$29,027,460.03
23.7
376
$77,200.69
2003
65,479
$101,285,428.20
$26,701,271.52
26.4
385
$69,353.95
2002
65,479
$113,253,403.50
$30,765,336.30
27.2
443
$69,447.71
2001
65,479
$96,222,134.95
$28,813,527.64
29.9
439
$65,634.45

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

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