City of Chicago
Salaries and Wages - on Payroll
$1.44 billion
Exact amount: $1,438,799,944.00
Calendar year 2026
Follow the money
Inside this box
Pick a rectangle to see what is inside it. Rectangle area shows positive amounts; the complete list includes reductions and tiny amounts.
Boxes that add money total $1,536,786,812.00. Boxes that take money away total -$97,986,868.00. Together they make $1,438,799,944.00.
The rectangles use $1,536,786,812.00 in positive amounts as their scale, not the $1,438,799,944.00 net total. Reductions total -$97,986,868.00 and appear in the list, not as positive area.
On small screens, use the complete linked table below to explore each box.
Boxes that take money away
- Budgeted turnover (vacancy savings), Corporate Fund: -$97,986,868.00
All items
| Box | Amount | % of this budget |
|---|---|---|
| Patrol Services | $1,216,121,204.00 | 84.5% |
| Bureau of Counter-Terrorism | $112,079,554.00 | 7.8% |
| Budgeted turnover (vacancy savings), Corporate Fund · Adjustment | -$97,986,868.00 | -6.8% |
| Bureau of Detectives | $68,601,134.00 | 4.8% |
| Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform | $65,476,470.00 | 4.6% |
| Police | $38,476,074.00 | 2.7% |
| Bureau of Crime Control Strategies | $26,861,196.00 | 1.9% |
| Office of the First Deputy | $9,171,180.00 | 0.6% |