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78B does seem fairly large. For comparison: NYC (pop. 8.4M): 78B Los Angeles (pop. 3.8M): 8.1B USD Toronto (pop. 2.8M): 10B CDN Chicago (pop. 2.7M): 9B
by allengeorge 12y ago
78B does seem fairly large. For comparison:
NYC (pop. 8.4M): 78B
Los Angeles (pop. 3.8M): 8.1B USD
Toronto (pop. 2.8M): 10B CDN
Chicago (pop. 2.7M): 9B USD
I expected the city's budget to be in the double-digit billions, but in the 40 - 50 billion range.
I wonder if it's something in how the headline numbers are calculated. Toronto splits out its operating and capital budgets, and there are some services like social housing that are (used to be?) cost-shared between the provincial and municipal government.
That said, most people just don't realize (or take for granted!) all the services that cities provide: police, fire, paramedics, garbage/sewer, water, roads and public transit - many of which are highly labour intensive.
- hudibras 12y ago> I wonder if it's something in how the headline numbers are calculated. This is correct. NYC is basically sui generis for American cities. As examples, there's essentially no county government and the school system is part of the city government. The school system alone accounts for $20B of the $78B and over 100,000 of the 360,000 city employees...AND those school numbers don't include the $900M for the city-funded-and-operated 4-year university system.