Who gets paid by San Francisco
Every settled payment in the City’s ledger — 411,111 vouchers to 6,401 payees in FY2021 — published weekly by the Controller, ranked, classified and searchable here.
The $4.6B via related units (34.2% of the total) are separate legal entities the City pays through: RET Retirement System $1.4B · GEN General City - Unallocated $1.3B · HSS Health Service System $1.1B · USD County Education Office $352.9M
The biggest payees
Top payees of FY2021. Banks that merely relay bond payments or employee money sit behind the toggle.
79.5% of FY2021 payment dollars carry a payee classification.
The top 10 of this view total $2.8B — 20.8% of all FY2021 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).