Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 444,824 vouchers to 7,165 payees in FY2020 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $4.2B via related units (34.0% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: GEN General City - Unallocated $1.3B · RET Retirement System $1.2B · HSS Health Service System $918.7M · CII Commty Invest & Infrstrctr $231.7M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2020. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
79.4% of FY2020 payment dollars carry a payee classification.
The top 10 of this view total $2.0B — 16.3% of all FY2020 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).