City spending

Human Resources Dept.

The city's published checkbook records $4,375,945,196 paid out under this department across 151,629 payment lines and 605 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$423,977,156

FY2019$439,688,622

FY2020$429,760,614

FY2021$481,698,492

FY2022$469,973,528

FY2023$474,580,854

FY2024$482,906,632

FY2025$497,132,792

FY2026$528,312,476

FY2027$147,914,030

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 605)

CIGNA HEALTHCARE$3,238,168,312

CITY OF HOUSTON - TEXAS SINGLE$216,715,125

TRISTAR RISK MANAGEMENT$210,837,331

KS PLAN ADMINISTRATORS LLC$99,664,772

A-1 PERSONNEL OF HOUSTON INC$87,791,807

AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY$80,130,924

CIGNA HEALTH AND LIFE INSURANCE$74,966,123

CIGNA DENTAL$67,742,908

DEARBORN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY$65,612,704

DELTA DENTAL INSURANCE$43,915,448

SUPERIOR VISION BENEFIT MANAGEMENT$33,556,638

UNITED HEALTHCARE INSURANCE CO.$24,074,386

UNITED HEALTH CARE INSURANCE$22,728,154

LANESTAFFING$9,582,809

THE RESERVES NETWORK INC$8,816,060

TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION$7,393,998

RECRUITING SOURCE INTERNATIONAL LLC$7,390,851

Emphesys Insurance Company$7,269,458

THE GUARDIAN LIFE INSURANCE$6,170,461

ReliaStar Life Insurance Company$5,724,493

ALERE TOXICOLOGY SERVICES$3,327,028

HEALTHSPRING LIFE & HEALTH$3,323,067

SMITH & DEAN INC.$2,876,759

GUARDIAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY$2,676,262

DECURTIS LLC$2,462,190

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 published checkbook ↗.