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Who gets paid by San Francisco

Every settled payment in the City’s ledger: 444,824 vouchers to 7,165 payees in FY2020, published weekly by the Controller.

$12.3B paid through the City’s financial system in FY20207,165 Distinct payees16.3% Share taken by the 10 biggest payees$4.2B Via related government units

Where the money went

$12.3B of payments in FY2020. Each lens re-splits the same total.

By department: $12.3B in FY2020.

$4.2B (34.0%) of this went through related government units General City - Unallocated $1.3B, Retirement System $1.2B, Health Service System $918.7M, Commty Invest & Infrstrctr $231.7M. Counted in, never netted out.

7,165 payees were paid in FY2020.

Source: Vendor Payments (Vouchers)·Data·Method

What the City buys

$5.2B of FY2020 payments bought goods and services, across 168 categories. Open one to see who was paid in it.

$7.1B left the same ledger without buying anything. $5.1B in debt service, benefit plans, tax withholding and payments to other governments; $1.8B in balance-sheet and revenue lines; $166.0M unclassified.

Categories are the City’s own accounting codes; the split into purchases and the rest is ours.