That's an increase of 24.7 percent from 2015, when the village spent $363,898, or $2,260 per household.
Malden has 161 households and a population of 362.
Since 2001, the Village of Malden budget has grown by 95.1 percent, from $232,688. The village population has grown 5.5 percent over the same period, from 343.
Salaries accounted for 3.3 percent of village spending in 2016. Malden property taxpayers paid $14,868 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $1,487 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had 15 part-time employees and spent $29,161, or $1,944 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.