← All vendorsCity spendingAdmn. & Regulatory Affairs
The city's published checkbook records $971,228,045 paid out under this department across 47,573 payment lines and 411 named vendors, FY2018–FY2027.
Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2027 means July 2026 through June 2027.
By fiscal year
FY2018$523,149,217
FY2019$177,255,754
FY2020$28,680,255
FY2021$31,726,188
FY2022$31,859,710
FY2023$57,941,341
FY2024$39,679,161
FY2025$38,726,220
FY2026$36,546,957
FY2027$5,663,242
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.
Largest vendors (25 of 411)
$269,159,399
$241,395,547
$172,056,220
$148,493,660
$20,847,983
$12,671,472
$8,633,747
$8,041,952
$6,567,389
$6,280,303
$4,716,801
$4,301,650
$4,236,678
$3,684,428
$3,616,517
$3,530,000
$2,871,280
$2,570,245
$2,196,434
$1,929,899
$1,800,819
$1,573,587
$1,504,283
$1,488,842
$1,315,610
What this does and doesn't show
- 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.
- Some payments name no company: the city files them under "GENERAL ONE-TIME VENDOR" or a bare asterisk — $683,428,414 across FY2018–FY2027, about 1.2% of all payments. Much of that is properly private, like legal settlements and housing assistance paid to individuals. Those payments aren't listed as vendors here because there's no vendor to list.
- A department total here is what moved through that department's books, not its budget. Funds it administers on someone else's behalf are included.
From the City of Houston's .