2026 budget explained
What is the Chicago Police Department’s 2026 budget?
The department total below is an adopted City appropriation, not its actual year-end spending.
Figures in the published tree
| Budget box | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago Police Department | $2,109,111,600.00 | Adopted/approved budget |
| Pay for workers | $1,528,211,989.00 | Adopted/approved budget |
| Overtime | $211,578,513.00 | Adopted/approved budget |
| Contracts and services | $21,212,078.00 | Adopted/approved budget |
How to read this
The rows beneath the department are selected branches of its appropriation. Payroll and overtime are budgeted categories; they should not be equated with employee take-home pay.
Limits and method
Some grant money has not been assigned to individual projects. Do not treat the department appropriation as all public safety spending or as a payment ledger.
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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