That's an increase of two percent from 2016, when the village spent $2.82 million, or $18,647 per household.
Carbon Hill has 151 households and a population of 352.
Since 2001, the Village of Carbon Hill budget has grown by 51.4 percent, from $1.90 million. The village population has fallen 12 percent over the same period, from 400.
Salaries accounted for 1.4 percent of village spending in 2017. Carbon Hill property taxpayers paid $40,463 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $3,113 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had six part-time employees and spent $18,933, or $3,155 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.