The city of Prospect Heights budget was $19.47 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $3,962.53 per household.
That's an increase of 2.4 percent from 2014 when the city spent $19.02 million, or $3,869.61 per household.
Prospect Heights has 4,914 households and a population of 16,367.
Since 2002, the City of Prospect Heights budget has grown by 58.7 percent, from $12.27 million. The city population has fallen 4.2 percent over the same period, from 17,081.
Salaries accounted for 19.3 percent of city spending in 2015. Prospect Heights property taxpayers paid $3.75 million for 39 full-time employees and 11 part-time employees.
In 2002, the city had 98 full-time employees and 36 part-time employees and spent $4.53 million.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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