Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 309,069 vouchers to 14,672 payees in FY2008 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $106.0M via related units (3.4% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: RET Retirement System $48.1M · USD County Education Office $29.3M · CCD SF Communtiy College Dist $21.1M · HSS Health Service System $4.4M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2008. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
60.3% of FY2008 payment dollars carry a payee classification. Earlier years are less classified — unclassified names show as raw data.
The top 10 of this view total $420.6M — 13.7% of all FY2008 payments.
What a payment buys
Six real lines from the ledger — each amount is one payee, one department, one spending line, in the fiscal year shown.
Food · FY2021
Lumber · FY2022
Bldg Struct Imprv-Direct Purch · FY2023
Interpreters · FY2025
Automotive & Other Vehicles · FY2025
Uniforms · FY2026 · preliminary
Curated examples of what a single payment line buys. The pipeline seed picks WHICH (vendor × department × sub-object × fiscal year) lines to feature; every dollar amount is computed from the voucher data (dbt-tested to keep matching).