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