City of Chicago

Salaries and Wages - on Payroll

$78.1 million

Exact amount: $78,102,955.00

Calendar year 2026

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Boxes that add money total $81,315,097.00. Boxes that take money away total -$3,212,142.00. Together they make $78,102,955.00.

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The rectangles use $81,315,097.00 in positive amounts as their scale, not the $78,102,955.00 net total. Reductions total -$3,212,142.00 and appear in the list, not as positive area.

Chicago Public Library, $81,315,097.00, open this boxPublic Library$81.3 million

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Boxes that take money away

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Percentages of Salaries and Wages - on Payroll
BoxAmount% of this budget
Public Library$81,315,097.00104.1%
Budgeted turnover (vacancy savings), Library Fund · Adjustment-$3,212,142.00-4.1%

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