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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Dowell

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The Village of Dowell budget was $732,029 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $6,972 per household.

That's a decrease of 1.2 percent from 2016, when the village spent $740,551, or $7,053 per household.

Dowell has 105 households and a population of 389.

Since 2001, the Village of Dowell budget has fallen by 22.9 percent, from $949,327. The village population has fallen 22.2 percent over the same period, from 500.

Salaries accounted for 17 percent of village spending in 2017. Dowell property taxpayers paid $124,365 for three full-time employees and four part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had three full-time employees and seven part-time employees, and spent $103,292.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
389
$732,029
$124,365
17
7
$17,766
2016
441
$740,551
$118,542
16
7
$16,935
2015
441
$730,565
$114,494
15.7
6
$19,082
2014
441
$681,649
$118,321
17.4
5
$23,664
2013
402
$1,042,524
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2012
408
$926,500
$133,154
14.4
15
$8,877
2011
530
$955,133
$99,255
10.4
6
$16,542
2010
530
$779,025
$123,339
15.8
6
$20,556
2009
530
$776,125
$121,179
15.6
6
$20,197
2008
530
$776,102
$118,975
15.3
6
$19,829
2007
530
$874,405
$97,372
11.1
6
$16,229
2006
515
$846,656
$117,286
13.9
5
$23,457
2005
510
$727,377
$110,884
15.2
5
$22,177
2004
502
$692,876
$111,584
16.1
5
$22,317
2003
500
$375,618
$106,749
28.4
7
$15,250
2002
500
$953,305
$109,558
11.5
5
$21,912
2001
500
$949,327
$103,292
10.9
10
$10,329

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

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