Police
A city department, on the payroll — Public Protection
In FY2025, San Francisco's Police paid 3,007 people $714.1M in total, a median of $246,088 each, 10.3% of the city payroll. Source: SF Controller employee compensation (open data).
$454.9M in FY2013 → $714.1M in FY2025, with 2,897 → 3,007 people. Nominal dollars, not inflation-adjusted.
+ 4 smaller job families
Payroll is what the department pays its own people; the budget is everything it is appropriated and spends, salaries included. The two answer different questions and do not add up. Public Protection → · Its budget →
Every figure is a sum over the Controller’s employee-compensation data, grouped on the source’s own department code POL. Employee Compensation ↗
Series are keyed on department_code with the code's most recent label: department LABELS change format at FY2017 ('POL Police' → 'Police') and several departments were reorganized — codes are stable across all 13 years, labels are not. 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.