Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 367,906 vouchers to 14,056 payees in FY2014 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $225.0M via related units (4.3% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: USD County Education Office $68.1M · CII Commty Invest & Infrstrctr $53.3M · RET Retirement System $44.1M · CCD SF Communtiy College Dist $31.8M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2014. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
71.6% of FY2014 payment dollars carry a payee classification. Earlier years are less classified — unclassified names show as raw data.
The top 10 of this view total $1.2B — 23.0% of all FY2014 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).