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The city's published checkbook records $441,184,827 paid out under this department across 94,073 payment lines and 1,546 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$45,721,299
FY2019$48,733,035
FY2020$45,080,733
FY2021$51,602,577
FY2022$52,675,574
FY2023$58,663,602
FY2024$50,997,226
FY2025$43,900,341
FY2026$43,810,440
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 1,546)
$100,326,654
$98,665,782
$17,913,993
$13,334,818
$6,077,559
$5,846,320
$5,767,475
$5,725,212
$5,596,592
$5,321,797
$5,249,709
$5,040,231
$4,631,985
$4,541,341
$3,779,678
$3,606,954
$3,225,000
$3,168,761
$3,102,729
$2,953,098
$2,460,702
$2,411,930
$2,183,779
$2,174,995
$2,169,992
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 .