That's a decrease of 14.5 percent from 2015, when the village spent $590,420, or $2,684 per household.
Fairmount has 220 households and a population of 642.
Since 2001, the Village of Fairmount budget has fallen by 39.9 percent, from $840,004. The village population has grown 0.3 percent over the same period, from 640.
Salaries accounted for 16.5 percent of village spending in 2016. Fairmount property taxpayers paid $83,340 for 18 part-time employees, or an average of $4,630 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had two full-time employees and seven part-time employees, and spent $56,229.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.