Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 483,075 vouchers to 7,437 payees in FY2019 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $3.9B via related units (34.8% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: GEN General City - Unallocated $1.1B · RET Retirement System $1.1B · HSS Health Service System $944.5M · CCD SF Communtiy College Dist $249.4M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2019. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
79.6% of FY2019 payment dollars carry a payee classification.
The top 10 of this view total $2.3B — 20.4% of all FY2019 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).