Stand Up for SF is a local San Francisco effort to protect essential public services in the face of devastating federal funding cuts. As we move toward the 2026 ballot cycle, San Francisco faces a growing financial crisis as federal support declines. Local leaders behind the Stand Up for SF campaign are working to safeguard services like public health, housing, emergency response, and infrastructure that residents rely on every day.
This measure — known as the Overpaid CEO Act, part of the Stand Up SF initiative — ensures that the biggest corporations, whose executives earn hundreds of times more than their average workers, contribute their fair share. It builds on San Francisco’s long tradition of fairness and accountability. Instead of asking working families to do more with less, those at the very top should help sustain the services that keep our communities strong.
By closing the gap left by federal cuts and investing locally, the Stand Up for SF measure will help San Francisco thrive and continue to be a city that works for everyone.
Federal cuts have threatened essential city services. Since Trump entered office, support for local programs has been dramatically reduced, leaving San Francisco with fewer resources to meet community needs. We must act now and stand up for San Francisco through this public service and tax fairness measure.
Without new funding, critical programs like public health, housing, homelessness response, and neighborhood safety face growing uncertainty — which is why the Stand Up for SF coalition is taking action.
The Overpaid CEO Act places a small surcharge on large corporations whose top executives earn more than 100 times the median salary of their workers. Only companies with over 1,000 employees and more than $1,000,000,000 in revenue — truly the biggest corporations — whose CEOs make over one hundred times the median salary of their employees will pay this surcharge as part of the Stand for Up SF reform.
Only a handful of the largest corporations in San Francisco will be affected. Small businesses, homeowners, renters, and working families will not — a core principle of the Stand Up for SF fairness measure.
Revenues will help preserve critical city services: healthcare workers, first responders, public hospitals, housing, in-home support services (IHSS), long-term care (LTC) programs, and other essential services that keep our neighborhoods safe and healthy. These investments reflect the Stand Up for SF commitment to public services.
By reinvesting these dollars locally, we can close funding gaps, protect vital programs, and keep San Francisco a place where all families can thrive — the core goal of Stand Up for SF as a public service initiative.
Stand Up for SF is a San Francisco ballot measure that creates a tax fairness surcharge on the largest corporations whose CEOs earn over 100 times the median worker. Known as the Overpaid CEO Act, this 2026 public service funding measure helps protect city services like public health, housing, emergency response, and long-term care.
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