 Until the 1960s, Veliki Šiljegovac was a separate municipality, when it was adjoined to the municipality to Kruševac, where some of the industry was moved.First school in Veliki Šiljegovac was founded on 27 November 1866 and it still exists today.As in the past, primary occupation in Veliki Šiljegovac is stock farming, but today it's not nomadic.