The behind-the-scenes IT agency that runs NYC's core financial and payroll computer systems. FISA (paired with the Office of Payroll Administration as FISA-OPA) operates the Financial Management System that tracks every dollar the city spends and the Payroll Management System that pays 300,000+ city employees and retirees. If FISA's systems go down, city employees don't get paid, vendors don't get paid, and the city can't track its own budget. It's the unglamorous plumbing of city government -- nobody thinks about it until it breaks, and the systems are dangerously outdated.
Spending
$82.0M
1,058 transactions →
Payroll
$38.9M
7,587 pay records →
Budget (Adopted)
$122.9M
$76.9M spent
Avg Salary
$136.5K
across 7,587 records
Did You Know
FISA's Financial Management System processes every single dollar NYC spends -- over $110 billion annually -- yet the systems are so old that the Comptroller called their state 'a critical threat' to city operations. It's like running a Fortune 5 company on software from the 1990s.
| PERSONAL SERVICES | $38.9M |
| 450 PARTNERS LLC | $20.9M |
| INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP | $4.6M |
| CGI TECHNOLOGIES AND SOLUTIONS INC | $4.0M |
| SHI INTERNATIONAL CORP | $3.1M |
| COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGER (NON MGRL) FORMERLY M1 AND M2 | 2,665 staff | $148.1K avg |
| COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGER | 907 staff | $188.3K avg |
| COMPUTER SPECIALIST (SOFTWARE) | 741 staff | $135.1K avg |
| COMPUTER ASSOCIATE (OPERATIONS)-NON-SPVR |
| 391 staff |
| $93.0K avg |
| IT AUTOMATION AND MONITORING ENGINEER | 261 staff | $96.4K avg |
Headcount
Combined FISA-OPA personnel cost was $71.6M in FY2025. Headcount has been frozen and cut -- vacancy rate dropped to 0% by FY2024 not because they're fully staffed, but because they cut the authorized positions to match the skeleton crew
Who It Serves
Every city agency that spends money or has employees (which is all of them), plus 300,000+ active city workers, retirees, and vendors who need to get paid
Category
Government Operations