That's an increase of 42.7 percent from 2016, when the village spent $126,105, or $725 per household.
Norwood has 174 households and a population of 473.
Since 2001, the Village of Norwood budget has fallen by 20.3 percent, from $225,780. The village population has fallen 4.6 percent over the same period, from 496.
Salaries accounted for 7.1 percent of village spending in 2017. Norwood property taxpayers paid $12,783 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $1,065 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had 17 part-time employees and spent $25,604, or $1,506 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.

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