That's an increase of 40.4 percent from 2014, when the village spent $926,073, or $9,957.77 per household.
Parkersburg has 93 households and a population of 230.
Since 2001, the Village of Parkersburg budget has grown by 313.7 percent, from $314,327.32. The village population has fallen 1.7 percent over the same period, from 234.
Salaries accounted for 1.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Parkersburg property taxpayers paid $15,243.90 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $1,524.39 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had 12 part-time employees and spent $17,611.35, or $1,467.61 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.