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Thursday, October 2, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Sorento

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The Village of Sorento budget was $1.18 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $5,440 per household.

That's a decrease of 18.7 percent from 2016, when the village spent $1.45 million, or $6,693 per household.

Sorento has 217 households and a population of 470.

Since 2001, the Village of Sorento budget has grown by 41.1 percent, from $836,522. The village population has fallen 27.7 percent over the same period, from 650.

Salaries accounted for 4.4 percent of village spending in 2017. Sorento property taxpayers paid $52,454 for two full-time employees and 10 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and 12 part-time employees, and spent $65,408.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
470
$1,180,530
$52,454
4.4
12
$4,371
2016
470
$1,452,347
$53,394
3.7
12
$4,449
2015
498
$744,440
$52,592
7.1
10
$5,259
2014
498
$744,440
$50,627
6.8
14
$3,616
2013
498
$654,858
$67,054
10.2
11
$6,096
2012
498
$567,454
$65,241
11.5
13
$5,019
2011
498
$2,187,793
$71,546
3.3
11
$6,504
2010
601
$2,212,786
$68,801
3.1
18
$3,822
2009
601
$1,494,757
$72,470
4.8
13
$5,575
2008
601
$1,385,894
$69,751
5
17
$4,103
2007
601
$1,455,216
$52,006
3.6
16
$3,250
2006
601
$625,625
$65,646
10.5
18
$3,647
2005
601
$1,014,052
$55,142
5.4
15
$3,676
2004
601
$890,497
$68,179
7.7
16
$4,261
2003
601
$986,462
$75,272
7.6
13
$5,790
2002
601
$989,695
$64,425
6.5
14
$4,602
2001
650
$836,522
$65,408
7.8
13
$5,031

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

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