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Thursday, July 17, 2025

The price of local government: Village of Jewett

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The Village of Jewett budget was $129,540 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,088.57 per household.

That's a decrease of one percent from 2014, when the village spent $130,810, or $1,099.24 per household.

Jewett has 119 households and a population of 223.

Since 2001, the Village of Jewett budget has fallen by 7.3 percent, from $139,740. The village population has fallen 3.9 percent over the same period, from 232.

Salaries accounted for 10.5 percent of village spending in 2015. Jewett property taxpayers paid $13,566 for three part-time employees, or an average of $4,522 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $18,859.42, or $1,714.49 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
223
$129,540
$13,566
10.5
3
$4,521.99
2014
223
$130,810
$13,611.45
10.4
3
$4,537.15
2013
223
$132,080
$13,852.80
10.5
10
$1,385.28
2012
223
$133,666
$14,055.60
10.5
10
$1,405.56
2011
223
$136,188
$14,947.20
11
10
$1,494.72
2010
232
$140,970
$13,297.80
9.4
11
$1,208.89
2009
232
$164,641
$16,096.85
9.8
10
$1,609.68
2008
232
$104,412
$15,577.05
14.9
10
$1,557.70
2007
232
$124,605
$13,815.36
11.1
10
$1,381.53
2006
232
$137,520
$15,981.60
11.6
10
$1,598.16
2005
232
$142,104
$18,364.40
12.9
12
$1,530.36
2004
232
$144,351
$17,773.62
12.3
11
$1,615.78
2003
232
$160,314
$15,793.80
9.9
11
$1,435.79
2002
232
$163,957.50
$16,654.95
10.2
11
$1,514.08
2001
232
$139,740
$18,859.42
13.5
11
$1,714.49

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

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