People’s Budget Calculator

The People’s Budget Calculator empowers members of the public to create budget proposals for community-based programs and calculate how much the police department budget would need to be cut in order to fund them.

This field is pre-populated based on your city and state according to our database. You can customize if you have different data.

Estimate the annual salary of an average police officer. $70,000 is a good estimate.

Estimate the % rate for employee benefits. If you don’t know, 35% is a good estimate.

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Itemize the costs of your program by putting each component of your program on its own line. Note that for personnel line items, the selected employee benefit % will be included.

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A People’s Proposal For

Total Full-Time Officers:
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Average Officer Salary:
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Average Officer Benefit Rate:
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Budget Breakdown

Total Budget
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Total Grants
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Cost to City
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Personnel
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Supplies
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Subgrant
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Services
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Reduction of Police Budget

Cut to number of full-time police positions
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Number of positions cut as a percentage of total full-time positions
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Recommendation:

To pay for this program the city should consider reducing the number of police officers.
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