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Justice & Corrections

A family of city jobs

In FY2025, San Francisco paid $567.7M to 2,765 employees in justice & corrections jobs, a median of $189,099 each, 8.2% of the city payroll. Source: SF Controller employee compensation (open data).

Total compensation, FY2025
$567.7M
8.2% of the city payroll
People paid
2,765
2,812 in FY2013
Median per person
$189,099
+18% vs the citywide median
Paid as overtime
9.9%
$56.2M in FY2025
What this work pays — FY2025
p25
$129,384
a quarter earn less
median
$189,099
half earn less
p75
$290,057
three quarters earn less
p90
$365,026
nine in ten earn less

Exact percentiles over the 2,706 people whose main job that year was in this family, total compensation included. A low median means part-time and partial-year staff, not a low hourly rate. Compare every kind of work →

Compensation, FY2013–FY2025
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$339.4M in FY2013 $567.7M in FY2025, with 2,8122,765 people. Nominal dollars, not inflation-adjusted.

Where these people work — FY2025
+ 11 smaller departments
The job codes behind this family
Source

Compensation for the justice & corrections family, FY2013–FY2025, aggregated from the Controller’s employee-compensation data. 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.