One square is $1 of every $100. Click a line to see which agencies spend it, what one of its largest agencies spends money on and who pays for it. The city's fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30. Figures through fiscal 2025 are actual spending as reported in the Comptroller's annual financial reports; 2026 and 2027 are budget plans.
Moves pensions, benefits and debt payments into the services whose workers and buildings run them up, using the fiscal 2027 budget's figures for each agency; it works for 2027 only, the one year on this page whose budget itemizes these costs by agency, and striped squares are costs the budget assigns to no agency.
The $118 billion is the audited total for fiscal 2025; the budget adopted in June 2024 was about $112 billion, and taxes and grants came in higher than planned. Pensions, debt service and most health insurance are counted in citywide lines rather than in the services whose workers and buildings run them up; schools are the exception and pay their own staff's health insurance. The switch under the squares counts them back for fiscal 2027 the way the Office of Management and Budget itemizes them by agency: police, fire, jails and prosecutors rise from $10 to $18 of every $100, and schools from $31 to $35. The audited books do not itemize these costs by agency; applying the fiscal 2025 budget's itemization of pensions and health insurance to the audited lines gives an estimate of about $20 for police, fire, jails and prosecutors in fiscal 2025, up from $11, and about $32 for schools, up from $29. Shares show each line's slice of the budget, not its size; part three shows dollars per resident.
Source: New York City Comptroller, annual comprehensive financial reports, General Fund expenditures and transfers by function and agency, fiscal 2000 to 2025; Office of Management and Budget, adopted budget for fiscal 2027 and its supporting schedules, June 2026. Buckets listed in the method note.
The two biggest lines, measured by what they deliver.
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The operating budget must balance every year, by state law. Three things sit beside it.
Each line in real dollars per resident, fiscal 2000 to 2027.