Paid by the city

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

The city's published checkbook records $1,060,632,131 paid to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON across 991 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$118,161,532

FY2019$123,869,871

FY2020$113,548,523

FY2021$108,492,590

FY2022$111,725,049

FY2023$108,982,595

FY2024$107,454,748

FY2025$126,826,565

FY2026$141,570,658

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

Citywide General Government$907,877,180

Admn. & Regulatory Affairs$148,493,660

Housing and Community Devp.$4,261,291

How these purchases were made

Vendor Invoice — $1,059,620,715

Service Rel. Order — $1,011,417

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded. None of this vendor's payments were flagged sole-source or emergency.

Contract billed under

4600015808 — $1,011,417

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.