Maranhão · 1,089,215 residents · Mayor elected in 2024: Eduardo Braide · 31 town councillors
São Luís
R$ 5,1 bi paid in 2025.
R$ 4.697 per resident · Towns of the same size: R$ 5.685
Spending by function
Click a function to see its sub-functions and the previous years
The 8 other functions (4%)
Source: SICONFI, the town's 2025 accounts (DCA, Annex I-E), spending paid.
Suppliers and recipients
The same R$ 5,1 bi, by type of spending.
Source: SICONFI, the town's 2025 accounts (DCA, Annex I-D), spending paid by type.
Click a supplier to see its contracts
- Via Nacional Distribuidora LTDA1 contractR$ 828 mi
- RC Nutry Alimentacao LTDA1 contractR$ 98,3 mi
- Silveira Engenharia e Construcoes LTDA7 contractsR$ 81,4 mi
- 4MA Engenharia LTDA1 contractR$ 44,9 mi
- Brink Mobil Equipamentos Educacionais LTDA2 contractsR$ 38,7 mi
- Ferreira Junior Engenharia LTDA8 contractsR$ 38,6 mi
- Ciasaude Comercio, Representacoes e Servicos LTDA1 contractR$ 33,4 mi
- Agrasty Construcoes LTDA2 contractsR$ 30,9 mi
623 suppliers · R$ 1,6 bi in 1.003 contracts · All contracts and suppliers
Why this total differs from the spending paid
A contract's value is the total signed, often over several years, not what was paid in the year. What is paid in a year also comes from older contracts and from purchases without a published contract.
The total value of each company's or organisation's contracts with the town, published on the PNCP since 2026. Private individuals are not named.
Investment
R$ 52,3 mi invested in 2025 in works, facilities and equipment (1% of spending paid), or R$ 48 per resident.
Source: SICONFI, the town's accounts (DCA, Annex I-D), investment paid.
Revenue and borrowing
Revenue: R$ 6,2 bi · spending paid: R$ 5,1 bi.
Source: SICONFI, the town's 2025 accounts (DCA, Annex I-C), revenue collected, net of deductions (R$ 624 mi withheld for FUNDEB).
Debt and taxes
R$ 283 mi of debt on the 2025 balance sheet (loans and financing)
R$ 260 per resident · Towns of the same size with loans: R$ 1.097
R$ 51,1 mi paid in interest and repayments in 2025
R$ 1,4 bi of local taxes collected in 2025
R$ 1.316 per resident · Towns of the same size: R$ 2.039
ISS (services) R$ 1,2 bi · IPTU (property) R$ 186 mi · ITBI (property sales) R$ 65,6 mi
2025 accounts filed with the National Treasury (SICONFI): balance sheet and revenue. Per resident: the amount divided by the population (IBGE — estimativas de população). “Towns of the same size”: the median per resident of the towns over 1 million residents that report the figure for 2025.
Understanding these figures
Paid, committed, carried over: what is the difference?
Committed (empenhado) is what the town set aside for an expense; paid is what left its accounts in the year. The difference, the restos a pagar, carries over to the next year. This page counts what was paid.
How is the comparison with towns of the same size made?
The 14 towns over 1 million residents with accounts filed for 2025 are ranked from lowest to highest per resident; the one in the middle is the median. Being above or below says nothing about good or bad: it depends on the area, the residents and the services each town runs.
Revenue and spending: what compares?
In 2025 the município collected R$ 6,2 bi (revenue realised, net of deductions, above all R$ 624 mi withheld for FUNDEB) and paid R$ 5,1 bi. Both sides come from the same annual return (DCA); the gap is not a profit: unpaid commitments, borrowing and the previous year’s cash all sit in it.
Where do these numbers come from?
From the annual accounts (DCA) every município files with the National Treasury on SICONFI, function by function. Population comes from IBGE — estimativas de população.
The contracts come from the PNCP, the national procurement portal, where Law 14.133 has every public unit publish its contracts since 2024. We read the publications since 2026: what a unit did not publish does not appear.
The mayor comes from the municipal election results of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
Elected officials and staff of São Luís: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.
Page published by Qipu, independent of the town · Sources and method
Source: SICONFI, National Treasury (DCA, Annexes I-C and I-E), spending paid excluding intra-budget transfers and net revenue realised; population IBGE — estimativas de população. Source: PNCP, Brazil's national public procurement portal. The method · See the source