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The city's published checkbook records $173,898,040 paid out under this department across 38,561 payment lines and 836 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$16,889,015
FY2019$9,889,470
FY2020$8,663,951
FY2021$20,426,737
FY2022$19,470,717
FY2023$23,706,622
FY2024$27,432,251
FY2025$23,730,496
FY2026$23,688,781
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 836)
$17,559,956
$17,045,684
$14,206,198
$12,652,286
$9,940,505
$6,389,175
$6,191,004
$6,005,213
$4,922,390
$4,430,282
$3,694,248
$3,466,143
$2,973,363
$2,700,090
$2,149,568
$2,014,563
$2,003,811
$1,719,900
$1,713,966
$1,667,660
$1,529,531
$1,420,670
$1,297,428
$1,180,850
$1,093,106
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 .