That's a decrease of 4.1 percent from 2016, when the village spent $492,014, or $5,928 per household.
Du Bois has 83 households and a population of 198.
Since 2001, the Village of Du Bois budget has fallen by 5.6 percent, from $499,806. The village population has fallen 12 percent over the same period, from 225.
Salaries accounted for 5.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Du Bois property taxpayers paid $24,722 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $2,747 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.