Paid by the city

LANESTAFFING

The city's published checkbook records $14,835,792 paid to LANESTAFFING across 9,659 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2026.

Name as the city files it — often the legal name, not the trading name. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018$447,259

FY2019$90,061

FY2020$409,097

FY2021$4,995,044

FY2022$3,811,037

FY2023$1,868,084

FY2024$1,471,263

FY2025$1,079,460

FY2026$664,487

A dash means no payment to this vendor appears in that year's file. The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Which department paid

Human Resources Dept.$9,465,157

Houston Health Department$3,607,821

Solid Waste Management$1,675,396

Parks & Recreation$67,657

Houston Fire Department (HFD)$11,377

Houston Police Department-HPD$8,384

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $8,922,087

PO Emergency — $5,978,783

Vendor Invoice — -$65,080

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 40% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600015759 — $3,983,856

4600016220 — $3,472,173

4600016761 — $2,647,827

4600017295 — $1,687,973

4600012972 — $602,432

A contract number is the city's master agreement; individual purchases are released against it and don't each go back to council for a vote.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page is summed from the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗, FY2018–FY2026. PlainDocket stores the totals; the individual payments stay on the city's portal, where you can filter them yourself.

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
This covers what the city paid — not what a council vote approved. A contract approved years ago can still be generating payments, and money approved recently may not have been paid yet.