City spending

Houston Public Works - HPW

The city's published checkbook records $15,434,086,418 paid out under this department across 463,384 payment lines and 3,155 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$1,282,891,016

FY2019$1,353,090,860

FY2020$1,702,628,086

FY2021$1,892,900,317

FY2022$1,748,085,092

FY2023$1,801,800,307

FY2024$1,818,163,514

FY2025$1,898,236,598

FY2026$1,936,290,628

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 3,155)

THE BANK OF NEW YORK$4,589,288,022

HOUSTON WATERWORKS TEAM$1,704,250,203

HARPER BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION LLC$431,922,922

COASTAL WATER AUTHORITY$403,518,276

INDUSTRIAL TX CORP$376,745,408

SER CONSTRUCTION PARTNERS LLC$221,700,293

MAIN LANE INDUSTRIES LTD$210,900,824

REYTEC CONSTRUCTION RESOURCES INC$205,821,090

LEM CONSTRUCTION CO INC$186,795,601

WELLS FARGO BANK$185,741,838

GRAVA LLC$171,848,281

BOYER INC$171,420,868

PM CONSTRUCTION & REHAB LLC$151,925,359

TOTAL CONTRACTING LIMITED$131,592,449

JFT CONSTRUCTION INC$119,610,331

T CONSTRUCTION LLC$118,462,645

GOLDMAN SACHS CAPITAL MARKETS$114,547,034

BRH-GARVER CONSTRUCTION L P$111,904,779

CAROLLO ENGINEERS INC$103,950,147

MC2 Civil LLC$100,161,930

TDINDUSTRIES$97,439,228

TRINITY RIVER AUTH OF TEXAS$96,166,194

DL GLOVER UTILITIES LLC$86,580,245

LOCKWOOD ANDREWS & NEWNAM INC$75,224,398

FIVE COMPANIES LLC$70,912,423

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 published checkbook ↗.