City of Chicago

Salaries and Wages - on Payroll

$499.2 million

Exact amount: $499,207,515.00

Calendar year 2026

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Boxes that add money total $517,763,023.00. Boxes that take money away total -$18,555,508.00. Together they make $499,207,515.00.

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The rectangles use $517,763,023.00 in positive amounts as their scale, not the $499,207,515.00 net total. Reductions total -$18,555,508.00 and appear in the list, not as positive area.

Chicago Fire Department, $517,763,023.00, open this boxFire$517.8 million

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Boxes that take money away

All items

Percentages of Salaries and Wages - on Payroll
BoxAmount% of this budget
Fire$517,763,023.00103.7%
Budgeted turnover (vacancy savings), Corporate Fund · Adjustment-$18,555,508.00-3.7%

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