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Public Works, Transportation & Commerce

Department of Building Inspection

$88.2M
adopted for FY2025
0.6% of city spending · 22nd of 53 departments
+2.7% on FY2024 · +121.9% since FY2010

Spending by type, FY2025

The spending total is $88.2M. The lines below add up to $109.6M because $21.5M is money moving between City funds or billed to other departments; it is subtracted so it is counted once.

Salaries$43.7MTransfers to other accounts in the same fund$19.6MMandatory fringe benefits$17.6MServices from other City departments$17.4MCity grant program$4.8MNon-personnel services$3.8M
3 smaller spending typesProgrammatic projects$2.0MOverhead and allocations$457,525Materials and supplies$442,000
Transfer adjustments (spending side)−$19.7M
Carry – forward budgets only−$1.7M

Payees in FY2025

Chinatown Community Development Center$1.5MMission Action Inc$1.0MTenderloin Housing Clinic Inc$831,083Housing Rights Committee of San Francisc$665,014Insight Public Sector Inc$463,837State of California/Department of Conservation$438,709
2 more payeesPropark America West LLC$419,040First Data Merchant Services LLC$361,471

Revenue by type, FY2025

The revenue total is $83.2M, including $19.1M carried over from past years, which is not income of the year. The lines below add up to $107.9M because $24.7M is money moving between City funds; it is subtracted so it is counted once. Most of the revenue is charges, rents and fees the department collects itself, not taxes.

Charges for services$48.8MTransfers from other accounts in the same fund$19.6MMoney carried over from past years$19.1MLicenses, permits, and franchises$12.1MTransfers in from other funds$5.0MInterest and investment income$1.3M
3 smaller revenue typesOther revenues$1.3MFines, forfeiture, and penalties$650,000Expenditure recovery$162,329
Transfer adjustments (revenue side)−$24.7M

Operating budget, adopted and spent

Operating funds only, so the adopted figure here is not the department total above. Spent on the right, against what was adopted.

FY2025$86.8M adopted$84.3M−2.9%
FY2024$86.1M adopted$83.0M−3.7%
FY2023$85.9M adopted$80.9M−5.9%
4 earlier years
FY2022$88.5M adopted$81.0M−8.5%
FY2021$87.8M adopted$82.4M−6.1%
FY2020$91.0M adopted$75.6M−16.9%
FY2019$73.4M adopted$68.6M−6.6%
Next departmentPublic Defender23rd of 53 departments$56.6M

Source: San Francisco’s adopted budget, Department of Building Inspection, FY2025. Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗