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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Pearl

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The Village of Pearl budget was $14,325.90 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $186.05 per household.

That's an increase of four percent from 2014, when the village spent $13,781.40, or $178.98 per household.

Pearl has 77 households and a population of 138.

Since 2001, the Village of Pearl budget has fallen by 5.4 percent, from $15,138.50. The village population has fallen 22 percent over the same period, from 177.

Salaries accounted for 825.6 percent of village spending in 2015. Pearl property taxpayers paid $118,269 for four part-time employees, or an average of $29,567.25 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had three part-time employees and spent $8,607.71, or $2,869.24 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
138
$14,325.90
$118,269
825.6
4
$29,567.25
2014
138
$13,781.40
$11,940.79
86.6
4
$2,985.19
2013
138
$13,915.20
$13,313.04
95.7
7
$1,901.86
2012
138
$13,520.30
$13,735.48
101.6
6
$2,289.24
2011
138
$13,773.24
$12,299.04
89.3
4
$3,074.76
2010
170
$13,494.27
$12,433.11
92.1
4
$3,108.27
2009
173
$13,097.83
$13,205.18
100.8
4
$3,301.29
2008
187
$13,097.83
$9,840.04
75.1
4
$2,460.01
2007
177
$13,561.47
$12,280.32
90.6
3
$4,093.44
2006
177
$13,909.20
$14,913.60
107.2
3
$4,971.20
2005
177
$14,372.84
$14,756
102.7
3
$4,918.66
2004
177
$14,254.50
$20,151.09
141.4
3
$6,717.03
2003
177
$14,586
$23,803.56
163.2
3
$7,934.52
2002
177
$14,917.50
$24,682.05
165.5
3
$8,227.34
2001
177
$15,138.50
$8,607.71
56.9
3
$2,869.23

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

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