That's an increase of 14 percent from 2015, when the village spent $431,510, or $5,199 per household.
Du Bois has 83 households and a population of 212.
Since 2001, the Village of Du Bois budget has fallen by 1.6 percent, from $499,806. The village population has fallen 5.8 percent over the same period, from 225.
Salaries accounted for 4.8 percent of village spending in 2016. Du Bois property taxpayers paid $23,641 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $2,627 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had two part-time employees and spent $37,012, or $18,506 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.