That's a decrease of 10.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $158,641.
Pearl Township has a population of 437.
Since 2001, the Pearl Township budget has fallen by 6.6 percent, from $151,372. The township population has grown 17.5 percent over the same period, from 372.
Salaries accounted for 14.2 percent of township spending in 2017. Pearl Township property taxpayers paid $20,130 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $2,516 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and 11 part-time employees, and spent $25,469.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
437
$141,344
$20,130
14.2
8
$2,516
2016
372
$158,641
$15,742
9.9
4
$3,935
2015
372
$149,748
$15,990
10.7
4
$3,998
2014
372
$134,296
$15,990
11.9
9
$1,777
2013
372
$145,027
$16,570
11.4
9
$1,841
2012
372
$127,849
$16,818
13.2
8
$2,102
2011
372
$112,514
$17,143
15.2
8
$2,143
2010
372
$123,456
$17,091
13.8
8
$2,136
2009
372
$153,937
$21,048
13.7
8
$2,631
2008
372
$104,294
$17,722
17
8
$2,215
2007
372
$105,530
$18,302
17.3
8
$2,288
2006
372
$119,160
$18,724
15.7
8
$2,340
2005
372
$120,774
$26,688
22.1
8
$3,336
2004
372
$156,152
$29,579
18.9
12
$2,465
2003
372
$98,318
$21,542
21.9
12
$1,795
2002
372
$143,787
$22,176
15.4
12
$1,848
2001
372
$151,372
$25,469
16.8
12
$2,122
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.