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City Budget Review

Surprise city budget, fiscal year 2025

The City of Surprise published $481.2M in spending and $462.6M in revenue across 22 departments in fiscal year 2025. Transportation, Fire-Medical and Police were the largest, together 41% of spending.

Total spending

$481.2M

up 40% from 2024

Total revenue

$462.6M

Departments

22

What moved. The largest increase was Transportation, up $36.2M from 2024. The largest decrease was Mayor and Council, down $102K.

DepartmentSpendingRevenueSalaries
Transportation$72.8M15% of totalup 99% from 2024$15.7M$4.6M
Fire-Medical$72.7M15% of totalup 41% from 2024$7.2M$22.1M
Police$53.9M11% of totalup 18% from 2024$3.5M$25.6M
Water Resource Management$48.9M10% of totalup 44% from 2024$2.4M$7.8M
Parks and Recreation$44.4M9.2% of totalup 49% from 2024$3.5M$5.2M
Public Works$40.0M8.3% of totalup 49% from 2024$6.3M$9.6M
General Operations$38.5M8.0% of totalup 58% from 2024$286.6M—
Human Resources$32.6M6.8% of totalup 19% from 2024$29.6M$2.2M
Information Technology$14.9M3.1% of totalup 17% from 2024$1.7M$4.1M
Finance$11.7M2.4% of totalup 11% from 2024$73.3M$6.1M
Sports and Tourism$11.4M2.4% of totalup 0.8% from 2024$5.4M$2.2M
Human Services and Community Vitality$11.2M2.3% of totalup 17% from 2024$8.6M$2.2M
Community Development$7.5M1.5% of totalup 10% from 2024$16.3M$5.0M
Arts, Culture & Library$4.5M0.9% of totalup 25% from 2024$305K$2.0M
City Attorney$3.2M0.7% of totalup 57% from 2024$5K$2.3M
City Court$3.2M0.7% of totalup 22% from 2024$1.3M$2.2M
Economic Development$3.0M0.6% of totalup 19% from 2024$517K$980K
City Manager$2.8M0.6% of totalup 16% from 2024$102K$2.2M
Marketing and Communications$1.7M0.4% of totalup 5.8% from 2024$31K$1.1M
City Clerk$1.1M0.2% of totalup 4.3% from 2024$118K$615K
Mayor and Council$615K0.1% of totaldown 14% from 2024$41K$234K
City Auditor$528K0.1% of totalup 16% from 2024—$390K

City labels these records unaudited. View the city's original records.