That's a decrease of 3.5 percent from 2015, when the village spent $822,012, or $2,045 per household.
Essex has 402 households and a population of 789.
Since 2001, the Village of Essex budget has grown by 906.8 percent, from $78,792. The village population has grown 43.5 percent over the same period, from 550.
Salaries accounted for six percent of village spending in 2016. Essex property taxpayers paid $47,229 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $5,904 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had three part-time employees and spent $32,825, or $10,942 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.