In most cities this also covers revenues, aka tax collection. It would be nice to see the breakdown on how much of the budget is dedicated to collecting taxes to fund the budget.
When you drill down you get to the actual entries in the budget that correspond to the particular thing you are looking at.
It was interesting all the Director of Finance salaries of 900K - 1.4M. Seems like a lot of money to pay a civil servant but I may have been misreading the budget item.
I was looking at things like this:
192 FICA TAXES 0192 DIRECTOR OF FINANCE - - - 2012 - $1,369,489.56 PPE 07/10/2011 FICA MATCH CITY OF PHILADELPHIA
Seems to suggest that this director made $1,369,489.56 in compensation.
Nothing compared to the $15 million it shows as total compensation for the sheriff. (Don't know how to link it; just go to the farthest-right gray square that touches the bottom of the overall rectangle.)
