What San Francisco plans to spend

Every appropriation the Board of Supervisors votes, from the Controller’s own database.

Fiscal year2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027

$10.5B Adopted budget, FY2018 · all funds · +2.8%— Per resident

Where the money goes

By service area.

Service areaAdopted budget

Public Works, Transportation & Commerce34.0% of spending · 12 departments$3.6B

Community Health20.5% of spending · 1 department$2.2B

Human Welfare & Neighborhood Development15.8% of spending · 11 departments$1.7B

Public Protection14.9% of spending · 10 departments$1.6B

General Administration & Finance6.1% of spending · 15 departments$636.7M

General City Responsibilities4.5% of spending · 1 department$470.4M

Culture & Recreation4.2% of spending · 8 departments$439.3M

Breakdown unavailable

FY2018 department detail is not publishable

FY2018 is the PeopleSoft migration year: the budget dataset mixes both chart-of-accounts systems and duplicates department identities, so department/character breakdowns are not publishable. Citywide, org-group and fund totals are consistent and shipped.

Why? The FY2018 system migration See the last closed year (FY2025) →

Source: Budget·Data ↗·Method →

The budget over time

Actuals from FY1999, adopted budget from FY2010. All funds, nominal dollars.

Source: Budget·Data ↗·Method →

Different perimeters — adopted net appropriation vs year-end spending — so the gap between the lines is expected.

150 years of city money, from the 1880s →

Perimeter: The measured honest comparison (mart_us_sf_budget_vs_actual, 2026-07-16): fund_category='Operating' on BOTH sides, related-government-unit rows excluded from actuals, ALL transfer characters excluded from both sides. Departments sum back to the citywide operating pair exactly (dbt-tested). · Coverage: CLOSED fiscal years only (execution_status='closed' — the most recently ended year is still in its accounting close and is not shown at department grain). Department series start FY2019: department codes changed at the FY2018 chart-of-accounts break and pre-break series need a crosswalk that does not exist yet. · Source: Budget ↗