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The city's published checkbook records $1,043,121,836 paid out under this department across 472 payment lines and 32 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$47,608,033
FY2019$58,634,228
FY2020$118,186,659
FY2021$52,064,702
FY2022$49,577,556
FY2023$57,286,340
FY2024$56,963,376
FY2025$148,015,417
FY2026$320,229,996
FY2027$134,555,529
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 32)
$567,639,992
$343,225,043
$92,836,567
$32,070,378
$1,529,326
$865,554
$692,198
$610,942
$477,462
$315,844
$300,000
$225,460
$184,716
$165,227
$159,250
$147,986
$125,000
$96,000
$95,136
$60,000
$55,000
$51,146
$49,960
$42,073
$32,588
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 .