Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 382,193 vouchers to 13,570 payees in FY2016 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $305.5M via related units (5.9% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: USD County Education Office $105.9M · CII Commty Invest & Infrstrctr $93.0M · RET Retirement System $42.0M · HSS Health Service System $33.5M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2016. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
67.4% of FY2016 payment dollars carry a payee classification. Earlier years are less classified — unclassified names show as raw data.
The top 10 of this view total $853.2M — 16.5% of all FY2016 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).