Chicago 2026 Budget Recommendations for Positions and Salaries

2026 budget recommendations detail proposed municipal staffing, including salary rates and position counts for Chicago city departments. The dataset is an excerpt from the Mayor's line-item budget proposal to the City Council, published by data.cityofchicago.org. It was last updated in October 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze salary distribution across departments using DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION and BUDGETED PAY RATE.
• Compare budgeted headcount versus hours-based positions using TOTAL BUDGETED UNIT and POSITION CONTROL.
• Track budget allocations by organizational unit using ORGANIZATION CODE, FUND CODE, and TOTAL BUDGETED AMOUNT.
• Examine workforce composition by bargaining unit using the BARGAINING UNIT column.

Strengths

• Contains detailed position-level budget data across 22 specified columns.
• Follows a consistent format with equivalent datasets from past years for trend analysis.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of dataset completeness.
• Sample data unavailable, preventing verification of data quality and structure.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofchicago.org, sourced from the Mayor's 2026 Budget Recommendations.

Collection Method

Excerpted from official line-item budget proposal documents.

Time Range

Proposed budget for fiscal year 2026.

Freshness

Updated October 2025, reflecting proposed future budget.

Geography

City of Chicago municipal government.