FOR RELEASE:
July 24, 2025
PRESS CONTACT:
Deanna Shoss, Communications, 773-478-8417
The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a new dashboard on its Information Portal showcasing data on overtime worked by sworn members of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and associated costs. The Sworn CPD Member Overtime Summary dashboard allows users to explore overtime information by timeframe, unit, current member title, reason for overtime, source of overtime work, whether the overtime was compensated as direct monetary payment or compensatory time off, and more.
“As the City begins a historically challenging budget process for 2026, we hope that this tool will be of use to Chicagoans, to City officials, and to CPD itself,” said Deborah Witzburg, Inspector General for the City of Chicago. “CPD is the City department which, by a gaping margin, occupies the largest percentage of the City’s budget. In recent years, CPD’s overtime spending alone has dwarfed the entire budgets of many other City departments. In 2024, for example, over 11,000 sworn CPD members worked some amount of overtime at a cost to taxpayers of more than $270 million.”
Until now, despite high dollar costs and significant interest from the public and from lawmakers, data on CPD overtime has been difficult to access and analyze. With this addition to OIG’s Information Portal, users can pinpoint overtime information for specific ranks, units, and timeframes. For example, from January to June of 2025, the City paid $3.4 million in overtime to 371 sworn members in CPD’s 1st District. Users can also make queries by unit to view overtime data for the Bureau of Counterterrorism or the Office of the Superintendent, for example, and by specific special events.
OIG’s dashboards were created to make City data more meaningfully accessible, and by doing so, make City government more transparent and accountable. The data for this dashboard comes from multiple CPD databases; OIG follows a rigorous protocol to validate and clean data before presenting it in the Information Portal. “CPD was extremely helpful to us as we built this tool, and I sincerely appreciate their partnership,” Witzburg said.
View the Dashboard
View the dashboard on OIG’s Information Portal.
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