Bond Interest-Expense
A spending category in the City’s payment ledger
In FY2020, San Francisco paid $695.9M for bond interest-expense to 17 payees across 10 departments, 5.7% of the year's payments. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data).
Money out that is not a purchase: debt service, employee benefit plans, tax withholding, payments to other governments.
$695.9M
paid in FY2020 · 5.7% of the City’s payments that year
Who was paid in FY2020
17 payees, 10 departments.
Spent by year
From FY2018, when the City renumbered its chart of accounts.
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Tallest bar — FY2026: $976.8M. Bars are scaled to this category’s own peak year.
Departments in those payments
10 in all; these are the ones above.