Public Employment Relations

What this part of state government paid out, by kind of spending and by the organizations paid.¹

$79K

paid out, FY18

$21K

of it to individuals and others, unnamed (26%)²

$8,846

more in transfers between state accounts³

Year by year

Payments by fiscal year, not counting transfers.

$549K

$240K

Show the numbers

Year	Paid	Individuals and others	Transfers
FY24	$240K	$20K	$0
FY23	$549K	$31K	$587
FY22	$231K	$33K	$15K
FY21	$132K	$44K	$12K
FY20	$104K	$46K	$12K
FY19	$130K	$57K	$31K
FY18	$79K	$21K	$8,846
FY17	$97K	$71K	$12K
FY16	$70K	$42K	$9,314
FY15	$101K	$57K	$3,724
FY14	$101K	$85K	$16K

The biggest kinds of spending by fiscal year.

Kind	FY20	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24
IT Outside Services	$45K	$69K	$175K	$479K	$210K
Outside Services	$37K	$43K	$40K	$40K	$17K
Office Supplies	$8,084	$10K	$12K	$11K	$9,436
In State Travel	$3,553	$635	$2,789	$0	$0
IT Equipment & Software	$1,399	$383	$0	$13K	$0
Outside Repairs/service	$891	$983	$1,668	$1,225	$1,122
Office Equipment	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Out of State Travel	$1,812	$0	$0	$0	$0
Reimbursements to Other Agency	$0	$8,000	$0	$0	$0
Communications	$0	$0	$0	$3,485	$2,547
Equipment	$5,535	$0	$0	$0	$0
Rentals	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Equipment-Non Inventory	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Printing & Binding	$105	$0	$0	$0	$0
Refunds-Other	$84	$672	$0	$20	$697

The 15 biggest of 17 kinds.

One total each year for payees not named here. The last column also counts transfers and other entries the state lists under RESTRICTED payees.⁴

Year	Individuals and others	Share	Listed as RESTRICTED
FY24	$20K	8%	–
FY23	$31K	6%	–
FY22	$33K	14%	–
FY21	$44K	33%	–
FY20	$46K	44%	–
FY19	$57K	44%	–
FY18	$21K	26%	–
FY17	$71K	73%	–
FY16	$42K	60%	–
FY15	$57K	57%	–
FY14	$85K	84%	–

The executive branch’s central accounting system only. It leaves out the Legislature and the courts, and spending recorded in other systems. A fiscal year runs July 1 to June 30, plus payments made in July and August for goods and services received by June 30. Refunds and voided payments count as negative amounts. ↩
Iowa Funnel names a payee only when its name shows it is an organization: a company (Inc, LLC, Corp and the like), a government, a school district, a college, a hospital, a bank, a church or another institution. Payments to everyone else are added into one total for each agency and year. Their names aren’t kept or searchable. When we can’t tell, a payee counts with individuals, so that total also holds some businesses. ↩
The state marks some entries as not a payment to an outside vendor: transfers between state accounts, payroll deductions and similar entries. They count in an agency’s total but not under any payee. ↩
The state removes names it must keep confidential under state or federal law and lists them as RESTRICTED. Among payments to vendors, they count with individuals here; most are recorded as transfers and other entries. Some payments are only recorded as totals in the state’s accounting system, such as Medicaid, IPERS pensions, unemployment benefits and tax refunds, so the people paid aren’t listed at all. ↩

Sources: State of Iowa Executive Branch Checkbook on the Iowa Data Hub: the full ledger (dataset 1021) and its yearly files; the last 90 days (1076).