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Thursday, May 16, 2024

The price of local government: City of Crystal Lake

Budget 11

The City of Crystal Lake budget was $93.15 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $6,887.08 per household.

That's an increase of 0.5 percent from 2014, when the city spent $92.72 million, or $6,855.35 per household.

Crystal Lake has 13,525 households and a population of 40,743.

Since 2001, the City of Crystal Lake budget has grown by 129.5 percent, from $40.60 million. The city population has grown 7.2 percent over the same period, from 38,000.

Salaries accounted for 26.6 percent of city spending in 2015. Crystal Lake property taxpayers paid $24.74 million for 264 full-time employees and 193 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 223 full-time employees and 110 part-time employees, and spent $16.34 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
40,743
$93,147,791.28
$24,736,933.92
26.6
457
$54,128.95
2014
40,743
$92,718,571.93
$27,759,643.30
29.9
444
$62,521.71
2013
40,743
$84,764,293.12
$26,710,088.08
31.5
433
$61,686.11
2012
40,743
$80,207,048.62
$26,617,157.56
33.2
423
$62,924.72
2011
40,743
$75,691,458.72
$26,580,005.28
35.1
410
$64,829.28
2010
45,349
$107,929,201.65
$26,564,909.61
24.6
384
$69,179.45
2009
45,349
$72,047,310.66
$23,695,244.59
32.9
442
$53,609.15
2008
39,788
$68,064,503.62
$23,768,511.53
34.9
274
$86,746.39
2007
39,788
$68,468,612.94
$23,135,011.38
33.8
276
$83,822.50
2006
39,788
$68,629,755.60
$21,245,655.60
31
294
$72,264.13
2005
41,000
$71,834,074.20
$20,522,004.96
28.6
294
$69,802.73
2004
41,000
$59,596,639.05
$20,097,048.03
33.7
379
$53,026.51
2003
40,000
$61,181,436.36
$18,767,187.12
30.7
379
$49,517.64
2002
39,300
$48,851,255.25
$19,845,000
40.6
358
$55,432.96
2001
38,000
$40,595,852.33
$16,335,632.03
40.2
333
$49,055.95

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

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