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Kane County Reporter

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The price of local government in 2016: Village of Big Rock

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The Village of Big Rock budget was $517,546 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $964 per household.

That's a decrease of 40.2 percent from 2015, when the village spent $866,092, or $1,613 per household.

Big Rock has 537 households and a population of 1,126.

Since 2002, the Village of Big Rock budget has grown by 921.1 percent, from $50,684. The village population has grown 83.1 percent over the same period, from 615.

Salaries accounted for 8.6 percent of village spending in 2016. Big Rock property taxpayers paid $44,295 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $3,164 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2002, the village had two full-time employees and spent $10,080, or $5,040 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,126
$517,546
$44,295
8.6
14
$3,164
2015
1,126
$866,092
$42,730
4.9
14
$3,052
2014
1,126
$1,614,200
$51,877
3.2
15
$3,458
2013
1,126
$1,807,700
$94,697
5.2
17
$5,570
2012
1,126
$3,891,409
$69,641
1.8
17
$4,097
2011
735
$694,385
$71,352
10.3
21
$3,398
2010
735
$351,006
$84,531
24.1
21
$4,025
2009
735
$401,408
$58,804
14.6
18
$3,267
2008
735
$475,627
$18,942
4
9
$2,105
2007
822
$680,455
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2006
800
$519,250
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2005
677
$380,835
$13,975
3.7
9
$1,553
2004
677
$253,461
$12,670
5
9
$1,408
2003
677
$219,654
$9,792
4.5
2
$4,896
2002
615
$50,684
$10,080
19.9
2
$5,040

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

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