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