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The city's published checkbook records $457,309,427 paid out under this department across 96,030 payment lines and 1,570 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$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
FY2027$16,124,600
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 1,570)
$101,834,868
$100,326,654
$17,913,993
$13,334,818
$7,799,961
$6,639,771
$6,087,363
$6,077,559
$5,914,247
$5,901,331
$5,683,798
$5,596,592
$5,321,797
$4,631,985
$3,824,755
$3,606,954
$3,225,000
$3,168,761
$3,102,729
$2,953,098
$2,717,264
$2,430,685
$2,411,930
$2,310,436
$2,198,801
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 .