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Who gets paid by San Francisco

Every settled payment in the City’s ledger: 496,685 vouchers to 6,526 payees in FY2026, published weekly by the Controller.

Fiscal year20072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026•2027•
$16.8B paid through the City’s financial system in FY20266,526 Distinct payees24.2% Share taken by the 10 biggest payees$5.7B Via related government units
preliminaryFY2026 ended June 30 — the Controller’s year-end close is still running, so figures are preliminary and can still move.

Where the money went

$16.8B of payments in FY2026. Each lens re-splits the same total.

By department: $16.8B in FY2026.

FY2026 · which department paid it
  • General City - Unallocated14.7%$2.5B
  • Public Utilities Commsn12.5%$2.1B
  • Airport Commission12.4%$2.1B
  • Public Health11.2%$1.9B
  • Retirement System8.9%$1.5B
  • Health Service System8.2%$1.4B
  • Human Services Agency3.8%$638.0M
  • Municipal Transprtn Agncy3.7%$621.8M
  • Homelessness Services3.3%$554.8M
  • Mayor2.9%$484.1M
  • Every other department18.5%$3.1B
$5.7B (34.2%) of this went through related government units — General City - Unallocated $1.8B, Retirement System $1.5B, Health Service System $1.4B, Treasurer-Tax Collector $379.7M. Counted in, never netted out.

6,526 payees were paid in FY2026.

Source: Vendor Payments (Vouchers)·Data ↗·Method →

What the City buys

$7.7B of FY2026 payments bought goods and services, across 166 categories. Open one to see who was paid in it.

FY2026 · payments that bought something
  • Community Based Org Srvcs18.8%$1.5B
  • Construction Contracts16.9%$1.3B
  • Bldg Struct Imprv-Direct Purch13.5%$1.0B
  • Other Professional Services7.5%$579.7M
  • Other Medical Services5.1%$391.2M
  • UC Medical Services3.9%$303.6M
  • Power For Resale3.8%$292.8M
  • IHSS Ip Payments2.6%$202.1M
  • 158 other categories27.9%$2.2B
$9.1B left the same ledger without buying anything. $7.0B in debt service, benefit plans, tax withholding and payments to other governments; $1.9B in balance-sheet and revenue lines; $229.2M unclassified.

Categories are the City’s own accounting codes; the split into purchases and the rest is ours.

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Perimeter: ALL payments through the City's financial system — including flows to related government units (pension benefits, health service system premiums, community college district, citywide debt service). The city vs related split is exported per year in totals and related_top_departments; it is never netted silently. · Coverage: A naive top-payees ranking is dominated by banks and fiscal agents (debt service and pass-through flows), NOT by service providers — read payees through their bucket. · Source: Vendor Payments (Vouchers) ↗

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Who gets paid

Every payee of FY2026, biggest first. Type to search the full year's names, not just this ranking.

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89 payees in this view, largest first.

PayeeDepartmentPaid
BLUE SHIELD OF CALIF
#1healthcare
Health Service System$628.8M2026
KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN INC
#2healthcare
Health Service System$606.0M2026
Single Payment Payees
#3public agencyaggregated line
Treasurer-Tax Collector39 departments$535.3M2026
STATE OF CALIF DEPT OF HEALTH CARE SVCS
#4public agency
Public Health4 departments$530.2M2026
TURNER CONSTRUCTION CO
#5supplier
Airport Commission2 departments$439.6M2026
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
#6healthcare$2.9M in grants
Public Health5 departments$334.5M2026
MWH CONSTRS & WEBCOR BLDRS A CNST JV
#7supplier
Public Utilities Commsn$293.7M2026
CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO
#8public agency$10.9M in grants
SF Communtiy College Dist14 departments$265.9M2026
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
#9public agency
Human Services Agency3 departments$224.2M2026
CLARK CONSTRUCTION GROUP - CALIF LP
#10supplier
Public Utilities Commsn3 departments$200.4M2026
CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO
#11nonprofit$173.0M in grants
Dept of Early Childhood3 departments$173.7M2026
SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTH
#12public agency$115,765 in grants
SF County Transprtn Auth2 departments$152.2M2026

The top 10 of this view total $4.1B — 24.2% of all FY2026 payments. 79.4% of FY2026 payment dollars carry a payee classification.
Some payees are individual people — mostly landlords paid directly under master leases. They appear here only when you search their name, are labeled “individual payee”, and are never featured in rankings or suggestions. Sources & method →

San Francisco settled $16.8B to 6,526 payees in FY2026. The ten biggest took 24.2% of it. And $5.7B — 34.2% of the total — never left government: it went to the city’s own pension, health-service and community-college entities.

SF Controller — vendor payments (vouchers), FY2026
Source: Vendor Payments (Vouchers)·Data ↗·Method →