City spending

Human Resources Dept.

The city's published checkbook records $4,228,031,166 paid out under this department across 147,762 payment lines and 599 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$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

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 599)

CIGNA HEALTHCARE$3,126,212,260

CITY OF HOUSTON - TEXAS SINGLE$209,793,270

TRISTAR RISK MANAGEMENT$204,336,603

KS PLAN ADMINISTRATORS LLC$96,749,548

A-1 PERSONNEL OF HOUSTON INC$85,253,631

AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY$80,130,924

CIGNA HEALTH AND LIFE INSURANCE$72,908,715

DEARBORN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY$65,612,704

CIGNA DENTAL$61,813,111

DELTA DENTAL INSURANCE$43,915,448

SUPERIOR VISION BENEFIT MANAGEMENT$32,089,779

UNITED HEALTHCARE INSURANCE CO.$24,074,386

UNITED HEALTH CARE INSURANCE$22,728,154

LANESTAFFING$9,465,157

THE RESERVES NETWORK INC$8,611,402

TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION$7,192,301

RECRUITING SOURCE INTERNATIONAL LLC$7,032,578

THE GUARDIAN LIFE INSURANCE$5,994,582

Emphesys Insurance Company$4,848,107

ReliaStar Life Insurance Company$3,825,756

ALERE TOXICOLOGY SERVICES$3,325,737

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 — $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 ↗.