That's an increase of 54.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $19,367, or $497 per household.
Ellisville has 39 households and a population of 85.
Since 2001, the Village of Ellisville budget has grown by nine percent, from $27,407. The village population has fallen 2.3 percent over the same period, from 87.
Salaries accounted for 6.3 percent of village spending in 2017. Ellisville property taxpayers paid $1,884 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $235 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had nine part-time employees and spent $2,424, or $269 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.