California City Expenditures, Line-Item Detail (SCO)
Every California city files a report each year showing how much money they spent and what they spent it on. This dataset has all those detailed line items, broken down by spending category like personnel, contractual services, and capital projects. You can use it to see exactly where a city's money goes, or compare spending patterns across cities. The data goes back to 2002 and updates annually.
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- 1,367,618
- Coverage:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z – 2024-12-31T00:00:00Z
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City expenditure line items, most recent fiscal year first.
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Questions this data answers
- How much did a specific California city spend in a given fiscal year, and how was it allocated across spending categories?
- How has a city's spending on personnel services vs. contractual services vs. capital projects changed over time?
- Which spending categories make up the largest share of a city's budget?
- How do two similar-sized California cities differ in their spending patterns across the same fiscal year?
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