Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 344,290 vouchers to 12,926 payees in FY2011 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $146.0M via related units (3.7% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: USD County Education Office $56.2M · RET Retirement System $45.0M · CCD SF Communtiy College Dist $38.9M · HSS Health Service System $4.1M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2011. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
66.7% of FY2011 payment dollars carry a payee classification. Earlier years are less classified — unclassified names show as raw data.
The top 10 of this view total $694.3M — 17.6% of all FY2011 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).