← All vendorsCity spendingAdmn. & Regulatory Affairs
The city's published checkbook records $965,564,803 paid out under this department across 46,126 payment lines and 409 named vendors, FY2018–FY2026.
Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.
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
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 409)
$269,159,399
$241,395,547
$172,056,220
$148,493,660
$20,768,516
$11,633,297
$7,949,727
$7,806,854
$6,371,234
$6,158,987
$4,644,801
$4,104,422
$3,631,607
$3,563,936
$3,465,550
$3,440,000
$2,788,395
$2,424,693
$2,196,434
$1,929,899
$1,639,764
$1,504,283
$1,488,842
$1,320,740
$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 — $617,266,200 across FY2018–FY2026, 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 .