CheckbookVendor

What has the City paid Workday, Inc.?

$98.1M in City payments across 200 checks, from May 7, 2020 to August 27, 2026. Outside-vendor scope only — payroll, transfers, debt and pension custody are excluded.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: WORKDAY, INC.

$98.1MTotal paid
200Payments
$490,553Average payment
FY2023-24Peak full year · $24.5M

By fiscal year

FY2019-20
$1.7M
FY2020-21
$15.2M
FY2021-22
$12.1M
FY2022-23
$17.7M
FY2023-24
$24.5M
FY2024-25
$16.3M
FY2025-26
$6.5M
FY2026-27 *
$4.3M

Who pays them

Information Technology Agency$96.7M
Recreation and Parks$473K
Recreation and Parks – Special Accounts$464K
Public Works – Street Services$188K
Controller$105K
Public Works – Sanitation$93K
Personnel$64K
Fire$3K
General Services$2K

What for

Contractual Services$97.6M

195 payments

Department Administration$464K

4 payments

State Educational Account$3K

1 payment

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — $4.3M so far, not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $4.5M.

Most recent payments

The 25 latest to post. Purpose strings are the Controller's own reference codes — the budget line in the second column is usually the more informative field.

DateBudget linePurposeAmount
August 27, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC DATES: 7/1/2025-4/30/2026$187,728
July 16, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC DATES: 06/01/2026-06/30/2026$133,392
July 15, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC DATES: 07/01/2026-06/30/2027$3,956,940
June 17, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC DATES: 07/01/2026 - 06/30/2027$300,000
June 17, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC DATES: 04/01/2026 - 04/30/2026$133,392
June 17, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC DATES: 05/01/2026 - 05/31/2026$133,392
June 17, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC DATES: 06/02/2026 - 12/01/2027$50,400
April 7, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC: MARCH 2026$133,392
March 27, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC: JULY 1, 2025 - JUNE 30, 2026$158,400
March 27, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC: JULY 1, 2025 - JUNE 30, 2026.$133,392
March 5, 2026Contractual ServicesPublic Works – SanitationWORKDAY TRAINING$5,580
February 11, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC: JANUARY 2026$133,392
February 11, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC: JULY 2025$133,392
February 11, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC: AUGUST 2025$133,392
February 11, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC: SEPTEMBER 2025$133,392
February 11, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC: OCTOBER 2025$133,392
February 11, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC: NOVEMBER 2025$133,392
February 11, 2026Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY - SVC: DECEMBER 2025$133,392
August 20, 2025Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY -09/01/24 - 10/31/24$42,000
July 29, 2025Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY SVC DATE: 06/01/25-06/30/25$227,270
July 28, 2025Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY -PREPAID TRAINING CREDITS SVC DATE: 06/24/25 - 12/23/2026$33,000
July 21, 2025Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY SVC DATE: 07/01/25 - 06/30/26$225,000
July 18, 2025Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY SVC DATE: 6/1/25 - 6/30/25$58,000
July 11, 2025Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY SVC DATE: 07/01/25 - 06/30/26$2,004,957
July 11, 2025Contractual ServicesInformation Technology AgencyWORKDAY SVC DATE: 07/01/25 - 06/30/26$1,264,713

Also in City Ethics records

Workday also appears in City Ethics Commission filings as a lobbying client or as the payor of behested payments. The same company. The records show both; they do not show that one led to the other.

Lobbying, as a client

$720K reported paid to 2 lobbying firms, 2018–2024. Filed under: Workday.

YearReported paid to firms
2024$105K
2023$120K
2022$60K
2021$120K
2020$120K
2019$120K
2018$75K
FirmYearsReported paid
Jimmy Blackman & Associates2018–2024$390K
Gonzalez Strategic Affairs2018–2024$330K

Matters lobbied, as filed

  • Information technology and payroll issues for City vendor · 2023–2024Agencies: City Administrative Officer (CAO); City Attorney, Office of; City Council; Controller, Office of; Information Technology Agency (ITA); Mayor, Office of; Water & Power (DWP)
  • Issues related to implementation of Workday system · 2023–2024Council file: 20-0313Agencies: City Council; Water & Power (DWP)
  • Information Technology and Payroll issues · 2018–2022Agencies: City Council; Controller, Office of; Information Technology Agency (ITA); Mayor, Office of; Water & Power (DWP)
  • Enterprise System Procurement · 2018–2021Agencies: City Council

Source: City Ethics Commission lobbying and Form 803 datasets on data.lacity.org, matched to this vendor by hand. See lobbying at City Hall for how the records are read.

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (dataset pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Figures are every payment on record within the outside-vendor scope, not a single fiscal year. Back to the checkbook.