That's a decrease of 34.5 percent from 2016, when the village spent $453,915, or $2,819 per household.
Malden has 161 households and a population of 362.
Since 2001, the Village of Malden budget has grown by 27.7 percent, from $232,688. The village population has grown 5.5 percent over the same period, from 343.
Salaries accounted for 4.8 percent of village spending in 2017. Malden property taxpayers paid $14,239 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $1,424 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.