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← The budget, decoded

Every department

All 54 city departments in the proposed budget, biggest first. Search or filter, sort by what you care about, and tap any department to see the line items underneath. Figures are FY2026-27 proposed vs. FY2025-26.

Each block is a service area, sized by its share of total department spending. Tap one to filter the departments below.

A handful of departments are almost the whole budget. The five biggest — Public Health, the utilities commission, the airport, Muni, and citywide costs — are 56% of all department spending; the top ten are 78%. The other 44 split what's left, and 32 run on under $100 million each. The airport and the utilities commission largely pay their own way; the General Fund money City Hall actually fights over sits just below, in health, human services, and public safety.

How the shares shifted

Each service area's slice of the discretionary General Fund — the money the Board actually re-allocates, with enterprise, grant, and fee revenue stripped out — across the last five budgets. Adjusted for inflation, the discretionary pot barely grew over the window, so a bigger slice for one area meant a smaller one somewhere else. Public Protection's share rose (about 32% to 34%, peaking near 36% in FY25-26); Community Health's fell (about 21% to 17%); the other four moved within roughly a point. FY26-27 is the Mayor's June 1 proposal.

Share shift over the window (FY22-23 → proposed FY26-27): Public Protection +2.3 pts · Public Works +0.8 pts · Human Welfare +1.1 pts · Community Health −4.0 pts · Culture & Recreation −0.1 pts · General Administration & Finance −0.1 pts

See the numbers & method
Share of total discretionary General Fund support, %. FY26-27 is the June 1 proposal.
Service areaFY22-23FY23-24FY24-25FY25-26FY26-27ᵖ
Public Protection 32.0%33.2%34.5%36.4%34.2%
Public Works, Transportation & Commerce 15.9%16.3%15.7%15.1%16.8%
Human Welfare & Neighborhood Development 19.9%19.7%20.3%20.1%21.0%
Community Health 20.8%19.0%17.8%16.8%16.8%
Culture & Recreation 5.4%5.5%5.4%5.6%5.4%
General Administration & Finance 6.0%6.2%6.2%6.1%5.9%

Metric: Allocated General Fund Support (GFS) — the City's own net General Fund contribution to each area, from the "Sources of Funds by Major Service Area" schedule in each year's Appropriation Ordinance. GFS is the discretionary lens (it excludes enterprise, grant, and fee revenue), not gross spending.

  • FY26-27 is the Mayor's June 1 proposal; the Board adopts the final ordinance around Aug 1, 2026. Re-check every FY26-27 figure against the adopted ordinance then. The real-dollar column also uses a projected CPI for FY25-26 H2 and FY26-27 (flagged); the share figures do not depend on it.
  • FY22-23 is an elevated base for Community Health (pandemic-era public-health support was winding down). The size of the Community Health decline depends on the start year; the direction (a falling share) is consistent across start years, the magnitude is not.
  • General Administration & Finance is not comparable before FY22-23 because of department reclassifications (Mayor's Office GFS split across areas; Department of Early Childhood established; Status of Women → Human Rights Commission → Agency for Human Rights; HSH). From FY22-23 on it is stable (~6%).
  • GFS is the City's discretionary General Fund support by area, not gross spending. Do not mix it with gross 'uses' figures.

Source: Mayor's Proposed June 1 Budget Book, FY2026-27 & FY2027-28, and the interim Annual Appropriation Ordinance. Department and division totals are machine-extracted and verified against the budget book's printed totals. Percent change compares FY2026-27 proposed to the FY2025-26 budget; "new" marks a line with no prior-year baseline (often a merger or reorganization). Department budgets are gross: they include transfers between departments, so they total more than the city's $16.9 billion net budget.