City spending

Mayor's Office

The city's published checkbook records $2,923,401,042 paid out under this department across 13,097 payment lines and 737 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$289,392,357

FY2019$148,496,589

FY2020$207,435,277

FY2021$331,330,498

FY2022$498,919,962

FY2023$354,405,848

FY2024$372,550,089

FY2025$380,422,642

FY2026$340,447,780

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 737)

UPTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY$357,004,258

HOUSTON ISD$291,301,784

MIDTOWN REDEVELOPMENT$252,767,159

MAIN STREET MARKET SQUARE REDEVELOP$165,262,633

MEMORIAL CITY TIRTZ #17$152,251,648

UPPER KIRBY REDEVL AURTHORITY$139,933,921

GREATER GREENSPOINT$138,804,964

HUMBLE I S D$124,020,079

HOUSTON ARTS ALLIANCE$114,608,278

HOUSTON PARKS BOARD$104,696,532

SOUTHWEST HOUSTON REDEV AUTH$101,539,994

OST/ALMEDA CORRIDORS$81,021,840

MEMORIAL HEIGHTS REDEVELOPMENT$73,073,299

LAKE HOUSTON REDEVELOPMENT$59,334,750

WESTCHASE DISTRICT$51,551,732

EAST DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT$47,137,949

REINVESTMENT ZONE NUMBER TWENTY-$43,800,028

MONTROSE RDA/ TIRZ 27$39,892,388

GULFGATE REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY$30,060,836

FOURTH WARD REDEVELOPMENT$28,755,905

HIRAM CLARKE/ FORT BEND$28,056,557

HARRISBURG REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY$25,527,543

SAINT GEORGE REDEVELOPMENT$24,819,470

GULFGATE REDEVELOPMENT$22,867,801

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC$19,292,003

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 ↗.