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What does the Office of the Controller cost?

In FY2025-26, the most recent complete fiscal year, the City Controller's records show $77.8M spent from this budget, against a final budget of $79.1M (adopted at $79.0M). The adopted budget for FY2026-27 is $84.2M.

Budget and spending by year

What the City adopted for the department each fiscal year, the budget after changes made during the year, and what it spent. Fiscal years run July to June.

$84.2MAdopted budget, FY2026-27 (in progress)
$77.8MSpent in FY2025-26
$79.1MFinal budget, FY2025-26
Controller: spent by fiscal year
Fiscal yearValue
FY2016-17$59.3M
FY2017-18$61.1M
FY2018-19$62.9M
FY2019-20$66.5M
FY2020-21$61.7M
FY2021-22$68.8M
FY2022-23$83.5M
FY2023-24$79.3M
FY2024-25$80.9M
FY2025-26$77.8M

Spent, complete fiscal years only.

Controller: adopted budget, final budget and spending by fiscal year
Fiscal yearAdoptedFinal budgetSpent
FY2026-27in progress$84.2M——
FY2025-26$79.0M$79.1M$77.8M
FY2024-25$80.8M$82.9M$80.9M
FY2023-24$82.7M$84.0M$79.3M
FY2022-23$84.9M$86.8M$83.5M
FY2021-22$70.6M$70.9M$68.8M
FY2020-21$60.5M$62.3M$61.7M
FY2019-20$69.1M$70.9M$66.5M
FY2018-19$64.1M$64.7M$62.9M
FY2017-18$61.8M$62.6M$61.1M
FY2016-17$61.8M$60.4M$59.3M
FY2015-16$61.0M$59.1M$57.7M
FY2014-15$59.4M$60.6M$59.0M
FY2013-14$56.1M$57.2M$55.2M
FY2012-13$53.5M$54.6M$53.0M
FY2011-12$49.0M$52.0M$51.1M

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“Adopted” is the budget as first adopted; “final budget” adds the changes and transfers made during the year, such as grants received; “spent” is actual expense recorded against that year's budget. All funds, as the Controller's budget data files them under this department. Most employee benefits, pension contributions and liability payouts are budgeted in citywide accounts outside any department (see non-departmental accounts), and some special-fund work for departments is budgeted there too, so they are not included. The year in progress shows only its adopted budget.

People and pay

Pay year 2025, the most recent complete calendar year in the Controller's payroll data, with 2024 for comparison.

137Full-time employees with active status, 2025
$22.0MTotal pay, 2025
$410.9KOvertime pay, 2025
Controller: employees and pay by pay year
Measure20242025
Full-time employees with active status140137
Everyone paid during the year156174
Total pay$20.5M$22.0M
Overtime pay$368.2K$410.9K
Pay per full-time employee$135,513$129,430

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“Full-time employees with active status” counts distinct people whose full-time job was active when the Controller extracted the data, the measure the payroll page uses. “Everyone paid” also counts part-time, seasonal and per-event workers and people who left during the year. Total and overtime pay cover everyone paid. “Pay per full-time employee” is those employees' total pay divided by their number. Pay excludes the City's pension and benefit contributions.

Payments to outside vendors

Payments the department made to outside vendors for goods and services, from the Controller's checkbook. Spelling variants of one firm are combined. FY2026-27 is a partial year, through Sep 9, 2026, and is compared with the same point of FY2025-26.

Controller checkbook · Updated Sep 22, 2026Latest payment in scope · dated Sep 9, 2026
$718.6KPaid to 37 outside payees in FY2025-26
$78.9KPaid in FY2026-27 through Sep 9, 2026; $252.7K by the same point of FY2025-26 (−68.8%)

Largest payees, FY2025-26

Largest payees so far in FY2026-27

Controller: largest outside payees in FY2026-27 to date, with the same point of the year before
PayeeTo Sep 9Same point FY2025-26
Privacy-Controller$38.3K$0
International Security Products$6.1K$13.1K
Hitech Systems Inc$6.0K$5.8K
ODP Business Solutions, LLC$5.1K$12.4K
Konica Minolta Business Solutions$4.5K$0
T-Mobile$4.2K$4.2K
Insight Public Sector Inc$3.9K$84.1K
US Bank$3.1K$1.1K
Rasix Computer$3.0K$4.2K
Steuber Corp$1.4K$1.4K

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By fiscal year

Controller: payments to outside vendors by fiscal year
Fiscal yearPaidPayees
FY2025-26$718.6K37
FY2024-25$1.7M51
FY2023-24$2.9M49
FY2022-23$1.1M58
FY2021-22$507.4K52
FY2020-21$1.8M55
FY2019-20$2.3M59
FY2018-19$1.1M68
FY2017-18$1.2M87

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Outside vendors means payments for goods and services from the City's governmental funds, leaving out payroll, benefits, debt, taxes, transfers to other governments and employee benefit insurers (the same scope as the checkbook page). Complete fiscal years only in the yearly table. Names link to a payee's page where one exists; people paid only lawsuit or claim settlements have no page. Every payment is in the payment register.

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