Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 380,158 vouchers to 12,633 payees in FY2017 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $313.6M via related units (5.2% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: CII Commty Invest & Infrstrctr $112.4M · USD County Education Office $93.0M · RET Retirement System $42.2M · HSS Health Service System $28.9M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2017. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
69.0% of FY2017 payment dollars carry a payee classification. Earlier years are less classified — unclassified names show as raw data.
The top 10 of this view total $1.0B — 16.9% of all FY2017 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).