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The city's published checkbook records $387,272,996 paid out under this department across 3,592 payment lines and 159 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$42,789,859
FY2019$60,404,272
FY2020$42,462,420
FY2021$51,135,470
FY2022$42,770,955
FY2023$39,223,791
FY2024$32,484,489
FY2025$31,460,030
FY2026$37,107,122
FY2027$7,434,588
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 159)
$143,397,869
$77,945,561
$64,643,640
$46,885,065
$9,050,717
$8,662,384
$2,565,261
$2,468,586
$2,080,438
$2,048,679
$1,800,175
$1,641,026
$1,487,000
$1,400,939
$1,302,910
$960,872
$753,568
$594,492
$464,385
$346,290
$335,301
$326,921
$319,736
$312,347
$292,297
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 .