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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Kane

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The Village of Kane budget was $202,145.64 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,338.71 per household.

That's an increase of 452.8 percent from 2014, when the village spent $36,565, or $242.15 per household.

Kane has 151 households and a population of 1,500.

Since 2001, the Village of Kane budget has fallen by 41 percent, from $342,500. The village population has grown 226.1 percent over the same period, from 460.

Salaries accounted for 17.1 percent of village spending in 2015. Kane property taxpayers paid $34,478.04 for 20 part-time employees, or an average of $1,723.90 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 18 part-time employees and spent $47,512.97, or $2,639.61 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
1,500
$202,145.64
$34,478.04
17.1
20
$1,723.90
2014
1,500
$36,565
$34,517.36
94.4
13
$2,655.18
2013
1,500
$369,720
$32,264.96
8.7
13
$2,481.92
2012
426
$405,185
$33,604.12
8.3
14
$2,400.29
2011
426
$839,700
$37,760.04
4.5
14
$2,697.14
2010
426
$1,504,050
$60,429.51
4
17
$3,554.67
2009
450
$1,079,150
$59,862.88
5.5
17
$3,521.34
2008
450
$457,650
$53,845.63
11.8
15
$3,589.70
2007
450
$608,400
$44,006.04
7.2
15
$2,933.73
2006
450
$624,000
$50,581.20
8.1
15
$3,372.08
2005
454
$644,800
$45,680.36
7.1
8
$5,710.04
2004
460
$187,695
$43,151.79
23
10
$4,315.17
2003
465
$191,400
$52,236.36
27.3
16
$3,264.77
2002
460
$196,425
$52,473.15
26.7
11
$4,770.28
2001
460
$342,500
$47,512.97
13.9
18
$2,639.60

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

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