Texas Transparency

Open government is accountable government:
a clear look at your tax dollars at work in Texas.

Window on State Government - Susan Combs, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Top 5 Texas State Agency Spending Categories, 2011

  1. Public Assistance Payments:
    $26,501,123,478.54
  2. Intergovernmental Payments:
    $21,014,819,852.52
  3. Interfund Transfers/Other:
    $12,319,487,032.40
  4. Salaries and Wages:
    $8,595,912,992.82
  5. Employee Benefits:
    $5,743,905,057.61

Check Register Search Tools

Spending by Category

See all agency expenditures across the state in broad spending categories, including category and object codes.

  The search tools gather an immense amount of data and can take a few minutes to fully load.

Search Spending by Category

Select Fiscal Year:

SEARCH TIPS: This search may take a little longer to load since it is compiling data for ALL agencies (as shown in Figure 6 below). But it's worth the wait, with lots of slicing options, such as viewing overall expenditures by month and drilling down for details on all vendors paid by one agency. You can also view all the payments made by a specific agency for specific expenditures.

Results for Spending Category search
Results for Spending Category search

To get to the view in the image above, double-click the fiscal year you wish to see. Then, click "Run Query."

For more: Select a category to see statewide spending by broad categories. Then, drill down to see all vendors paid by an agency for specific groups of expenditures. After drilling to the vendor level, you'll have lots of options by updating the reporting month, spending category and groups and agency selection.

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