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The city's published checkbook records $908,566,307 paid out under this department across 446 payment lines and 30 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$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
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 30)
$510,356,971
$266,291,491
$92,836,567
$32,070,378
$1,506,826
$865,554
$692,198
$610,942
$315,844
$300,000
$239,382
$225,460
$184,716
$165,227
$159,250
$147,986
$125,000
$96,000
$95,136
$60,000
$55,000
$42,073
$32,588
$25,000
$24,980
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 .