← All vendorsCity spendingLegal Department
The city's published checkbook records $156,899,482 paid out under this department across 14,963 payment lines and 453 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$11,846,856
FY2019$12,299,911
FY2020$10,660,801
FY2021$10,660,399
FY2022$18,784,983
FY2023$21,406,678
FY2024$20,727,095
FY2025$27,122,443
FY2026$18,805,070
FY2027$4,585,246
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 453)
$40,505,744
$16,080,613
$5,102,914
$4,870,075
$3,041,864
$2,959,820
$2,421,480
$1,972,026
$1,793,075
$1,647,279
$1,135,615
$1,015,242
$949,361
$935,223
$927,522
$827,789
$650,373
$627,129
$524,103
$473,601
$472,446
$440,911
$415,671
$362,259
$357,659
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 .