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The city's published checkbook records $648,334,440 paid out under this department across 37,394 payment lines and 569 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$64,805,639
FY2019$59,353,664
FY2020$102,633,451
FY2021$53,413,403
FY2022$40,473,238
FY2023$36,070,810
FY2024$71,551,944
FY2025$137,246,708
FY2026$70,134,548
FY2027$12,651,035
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 569)
$112,564,377
$110,725,875
$48,893,168
$27,453,236
$24,513,348
$22,602,337
$20,505,376
$19,996,463
$17,813,034
$15,253,259
$14,919,995
$13,047,073
$12,478,838
$12,222,597
$10,204,153
$9,220,421
$8,954,946
$8,593,191
$7,235,204
$6,022,398
$5,912,958
$5,637,511
$5,153,790
$4,248,472
$4,064,246
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 .