DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – The city of Detroit’s full time workforce has grown to its largest in 14 years, as the city’s revenues have not been able to keep up with expenditures the past two years.

The city had 10,829 full-time employees budgeted in 2024-25. That’s 109 more employees than the previous year and 3,447 more employees than seven years earlier. The city had 7,382 full-time employees in 2016-17.

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Detroit has the most full-time employees since 2010-11 when it had 11,824. But the city’s population has dropped from 713,777 in 2011 to 639,111 in 2025.

Employees are a municipality’s largest expense.

The city’s total revenues were $2.21 billion and its total expenses were $2.27 billion in 2024-25.

The city’s expenses exceeded revenues by $58.3 million in 2024-25 and $50.5 million in 2023-24.

In these instances, municipalities cover those deficits with their rainy day fund savings.

Detroit was flush with pandemic money, and had an excess of revenues of $162.1 million in 2022-23 and $96.3 million in 2021-22.