San Francisco budgets on a two-year cycle. The current view is FY 2026-27, the second year of the biennial budget Mayor Lurie proposed and the Board of Supervisors adopted in July 2025. Use the year picker to view FY 2025-26 (year 1).
The Council's read on the Mayor's Preliminary Plan, plus where they'd find the resources to balance it differently.
Two structural points that shape every line item below — the biennial calendar and the share of the budget locked into personnel costs.
$16.23B all-funds
Sets every dollar of city spending for the year beginning July 1, 2026. SF budgets on a two-year cycle, so this year was adopted alongside FY 2025-26 in July 2025. Mid-cycle adjustments happen through supplementals; major reshuffles wait for the next Mayor's Proposed Budget in June 2026.
$7.57B salaries + fringe
Salaries ($5.43B) plus mandatory fringe benefits ($2.15B) account for 47% of total city spending. Year 2 of collectively-bargained increases lifts this line $289M above FY 2025-26.
$400M reserve held
Continues the year-1 reserve specifically positioned against anticipated federal funding cuts. Year 2 maintains the balance rather than spending it down — a deliberate posture given the federal context heading into the next budget cycle.
Every line in the budget is one of five kinds: restoring something that was cut, growing something that works, starting something new, fixing budget mechanics, or funding capital. Here are the four most-funded kinds this year, with the top dollars in each.
Each tile is one line in the budget. Tiles are sized by dollar amount and colored by area of city government. Pick a topic to narrow things down. Click a tile to read the details. Open as many as you want.
The current biennial runs through June 2027. Mayor Lurie's next proposed budget (FY 2026-27 / FY 2027-28) is due to the Board of Supervisors on or around June 1, 2026.
The Controller's interactive budget portal: drill down by department, program, character, fund, or fiscal year. Source for the dollar totals on this page.
The machine-readable budget feed. The Socrata API behind the AAO — same source as Open Book, queryable directly.
Publishes the Mayor's Proposed Budget (June), the Five-Year Financial Plan, and mid-year financial updates.
Budget & Appropriations Committee hearings (June-July) and the full Board vote are where amendments to the Mayor's proposal happen. Your district Supervisor takes constituent input.
SF's nonpartisan legislative budget office. Publishes performance audits, policy analyses, and recommendations on every appropriation.
Tracks revenue and spending in real time, publishes the Five-Year Financial Plan jointly with the Mayor, and runs the city's audit program.
Budget & Appropriations hearings are open to the public. Public-comment slots are available; you can sign up at the start of each hearing.
Where revenue actually lands. Collects property tax, business tax, transfer tax, and operates the city's investment pool.