Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 333,746 vouchers to 13,777 payees in FY2009 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $131.0M via related units (4.1% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: CCD SF Communtiy College Dist $43.3M · RET Retirement System $40.9M · USD County Education Office $39.6M · HSS Health Service System $4.5M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2009. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
61.5% of FY2009 payment dollars carry a payee classification. Earlier years are less classified — unclassified names show as raw data.
The top 10 of this view total $450.2M — 14.1% of all FY2009 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).