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+ Every year Philadelphia's transit agency septa{% capture sidenote %}SouthEastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.{% endcapture %}{% include "sidenote.liquid" %} + publishes budget figures.{% capture sidenote %}The reports page with many PDFs for download including the 2021 budget: https://planning.septa.org/reports/ (archived link).{% endcapture %}{% include "sidenote.liquid" %} + There is a lot of information in the document, both a high level table and many further breakdowns. +

+ +I thought it would be interesting to read through the numbers and build a +Sankey diagram{% capture sidenote %}https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram{% endcapture %}{% include "sidenote.liquid" %} +showing several levels of expenses and revenue broken down by category. + +Starting at the highest level this is the top level budget for the entire organization: + +### 2021 Budget Breakdown + + Revenue | Amount in Thousands + :------------------------------- | ------------------: + Passenger Revenue | 480,574 + Shared Ride Program | 16,250 + Other Income | 42,188 + Investment Income | 2,756 +   | --------- + *Total Operating Revenue* | 541,768 + + Subsidy |   + :------------------------------- | ------------------: + Federal | 93,028 + State | 779,377 + Local | 112,451 + Other | 4,360 +   | --------- + *Total Subsidy* | 989,216 + + Expenses |   + :------------------------------- | ------------------: + Labor and Fringe Benefits | 1,088,773 + Material and Services | 331,432 + Injury and Damage Claims | 24,711 + Propulsion Power | 27,313 + Fuel | 26,026 + Vehicle and Facility Rentals | 8,854 +   | --------- + *Operating Expense* | 1,507,109 + Depreciation/Contributed Capital | 23,875 +   | --------- + **Total Expenses** | **1,530,984** + + +Note that the subsidies (mostly from the state of Pennsylvania) exactly cover +the gap between expenses and revenue. + +I found the high level table a little lacking in detail, so I read further and +tried to pull out numbers from the various breakdown tables in the document +and align them to the overview table so we can see more detail of where money +is coming from and where it's spent. + +Here is a visualization of the budget as a Sankey diagram: + +
+ + Sankey diagram breaking down SEPTA 2021 Budget numbers by various catagories + +
+ + - Click the image for a larger interactive view. + - Download the chart as an image [SEPTA_2021_Budget_sankey.png](SEPTA_2021_Budget_sankey.png) + +This represents my best-guess understanding at the data as-is from the PDF.