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Friday, April 25, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Pontoosuc

Budget 10

The Village of Pontoosuc budget was $41,478 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,064 per household.

That's a decrease of 1.2 percent from 2016, when the village spent $41,963, or $1,076 per household.

Pontoosuc has 39 households and a population of 142.

Since 2008, the Village of Pontoosuc budget has grown by 4.2 percent, from $39,815. The village population has fallen 10.7 percent over the same period, from 159.

Salaries accounted for 10.7 percent of village spending in 2017. Pontoosuc property taxpayers paid $4,418 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $552 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2008, the village had nine part-time employees and spent $5,986, or $665 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
142
$41,478
$4,418
10.7
8
$552
2016
142
$41,963
$4,377
10.4
8
$547
2015
146
$41,327
$4,391
10.6
8
$549
2014
146
$40,524
$4,161
10.3
7
$594
2013
146
$40,554
$4,444
11
8
$556
2012
159
$40,930
$4,303
10.5
10
$430
2010
159
$38,794
$4,814
12.4
8
$602
2008
159
$39,815
$5,986
15
9
$665

All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.

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