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Where does your money go?

Every state budget.
Every dollar.

Follow the money, across state lines.

Budget at a Glance

$498.6B
Total state budget
2025-26
Agency Summary JSONLAO Historical Budget Data
$269.2B
Health & Human Services
54.0% of all spending
Agency Summary JSONLAO Historical Budget Data
$17.8B
Corrections
93K inmates. Down 42.5%, budget up 40.2% since 2010-11.
LAO CDCR Budget ReportLAO Incarceration Cost
$143,000
Avg state worker comp
Private sector: $71,000
LAO State Workforce Vacancies
20%
State positions vacant
47,920 of 243,829 authorized jobs
LAO State Workforce VacanciesCalHR Annual Census

California 2025–26 Budget

The richest state in America spends more to lock people up than to teach them.

$000,000/inmate

Incarceration

93,000 inmates

$00,000/student

K-12 Education

5.9 million students

6.9x more to incarcerate one person than to educate one child.

LAO Incarceration CostsCDE Per-Student Expenditure

They proposed a billionaire tax. The billionaires left first.

Wealth & Campaign Snapshot

116
Billionaires tracked
Current CA dataset rows with numeric net worth
Forbes Real-Time BillionairesSF Standard Billionaire Tax Tracker
$1.03T
Net worth marked leaving
Sum across status = leaving entries
SF Standard Billionaire Tax Tracker
51.1%
Share of tracked wealth
Leaving-net-worth / total tracked net worth
SF Standard Billionaire Tax TrackerForbes Real-Time Billionaires
$38.3M
Anti PAC money (known)
Disclosed numeric amounts only
Ballotpedia Wealth Tax InitiativeCA SOS CAL-ACCESS Filings
$3.6M
Pro PAC money (known)
Disclosed numeric amounts only
Ballotpedia Wealth Tax InitiativeCA SOS CAL-ACCESS Filings
10.7:1
Known anti:pro ratio
Computed from disclosed numeric amounts
Ballotpedia Wealth Tax InitiativeCA SOS CAL-ACCESS Filings

Your Tax Receipt

You paid thousands to the state last year. Do you know where it went?

$
State of California
TAX RECEIPT
FY 2025–26
INCOME$125,000
STATE TAX$8,278
EFF. RATE6.6%
Where It Goes
Health & Human Svc$4,470
K-12 Education$1,283
Higher Education$372.50
Corrections$298.00
Transportation$347.67
Natural Resources$264.89
Gov't Operations$231.78
Debt Service$149.00
All Other$860.90
TOTAL$8,278

* $298.00 houses 93.3K inmates at $127,788/ea. $1,283 educates 5.9M students at $18,534/ea. Your corrections share could fund 0 students for a year.

Thank you for your contribution
to the State of California

Tax brackets: CA FTB 2025. Budget allocation: 2025-26 Governor's Budget Summary. Percentages simplified from all-funds totals.