Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 346,659 vouchers to 13,320 payees in FY2012 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $143.0M via related units (3.5% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: USD County Education Office $59.7M · RET Retirement System $45.3M · CCD SF Communtiy College Dist $31.8M · HSS Health Service System $4.3M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2012. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
67.6% of FY2012 payment dollars carry a payee classification. Earlier years are less classified — unclassified names show as raw data.
The top 10 of this view total $757.6M — 18.3% of all FY2012 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).