Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 423,631 vouchers to 7,453 payees in FY2018 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $3.6B via related units (39.6% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: GEN General City - Unallocated $1.3B · HSS Health Service System $840.3M · RET Retirement System $723.2M · CCD SF Communtiy College Dist $202.7M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2018. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
81.3% of FY2018 payment dollars carry a payee classification.
The top 10 of this view total $1.8B — 19.3% of all FY2018 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).