Public Protection
A service area — how the City groups its departments
In FY2025, the 11 departments of San Francisco's Public Protection paid 8,050 people $1.8B, 25.7% of the city payroll. Source: SF Controller employee compensation (open data).
$1.1B in FY2013 → $1.8B in FY2025. Nominal dollars, not inflation-adjusted.
+ 5 smaller departments
Department-years with fewer than 5 employees are included in citywide totals (payroll_by_year.json) but not listed here; organization-group rollups are computed from the listed rows only. n_employees_listed sums per-department headcounts — an employee working in two departments counts in each.
Every figure is a sum over the Controller’s employee-compensation data, grouped on the source’s own organisation group 01. Employee Compensation ↗
No dollar aggregate in this file covers fewer than 5 employees. Groups under 5 people are pooled into visible 'Other roles' rows per department; pools that would themselves stay under the threshold are folded into the department total with no row. Departments under the threshold (the Law Library in practice, 2-3 people) are included in citywide totals but not listed.