2026 budget explained
How much overtime is budgeted for Chicago police and fire?
The two overtime appropriations below are budget amounts for the departments, not actual overtime checks.
Figures in the published tree
| Budget box | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Overtime | $211,578,513.00 | Adopted/approved budget |
| Overtime | $93,426,401.00 | Adopted/approved budget |
| Overtime | $9,688,931.00 | Adopted/approved budget |
How to read this
The emergency-management line provides context that public-safety overtime is not limited to police and fire. Each line is nested inside its own department.
Limits and method
Year-to-date payment data covers only its stated partial period and is a different measure from the full-year appropriation. Do not infer future overtime spending by extrapolation.
These are three separate governments, not one official consolidated City budget. The City and Park District use 2026 budgets, while CPS FY2026 runs July 2025 through June 2026. Transfers across governments may overlap. See methods and unresolved gaps.
Primary sources
These official references are attached to the cited budget boxes in the exported tree, rather than inferred from unrelated search results.
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