That's a decrease of 2.3 percent from 2015, when the village spent $492,455, or $2,402 per household.
Melvin has 205 households and a population of 452.
Since 2001, the Village of Melvin budget has fallen by 7.3 percent, from $519,303. The village population has fallen 9.6 percent over the same period, from 500.
Salaries accounted for 11.6 percent of village spending in 2016. Melvin property taxpayers paid $55,775 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $3,984 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had one part-time employee and spent $21,087, or $21,087 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.