Financial Transparency
METRO’s commitment to financial transparency goes beyond monthly Board/Committee meetings and is reflected by the type, quality and location of financial information, including awards, reported on METRO’s Web page. Financial reporting awards include the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting for METRO’s comprehensive annual financial report for 28 consecutive years and nine consecutive years for METRO’s two defined benefit pension plans. In addition, METRO has earned the highest grade available from the Texas Controller Leadership Circle program on transparency for the past ten years.
Detail financial information is located under the various tabs on this page.
Finance Summary
The following summarized financial information is for the most recently completed fiscal year of October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020. Revenues are recognized when earned and expenses are recognized at the time the liability is incurred.
The per capita numbers are calculated based on transit boarding count of 66.1 million.
Revenues and Expenditures per Capita, Fiscal Year 2020
| Totals |
Fiscal Year 2020
(In Millions) |
Per Capita |
| Total Revenues (including Sales Tax; excluding capital grants) |
$1,122.1 |
$17.0 |
| Total Expenditures (including depreciation; excluding capital expenditure) |
$1,042.1 |
$15.8 |
| Total Sales Tax Revenue |
$764.6 |
$11.6 |
Fiscal year 2020 full-time equivalent positions - 4,087
Chart shows Revenues and Expenditures per Capita, Fiscal Years 2016 - 2020
| Year |
Revenues per Capita |
Expenditures per Capita |
| 2020 |
$17.0 |
$15.8 |
| 2019 |
$10.5 |
$12.2 |
| 2018 |
$10.2 |
$11.4 |
| 2017 |
$9.5 |
$11.3 |
| 2016 |
$9.3 |
$11.6 |
*Revenues and expenditures in above chart exclude capital grants and capital expenditures.
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Sales Tax Revenue, Fiscal 2016 - 2020
| Year |
Sales Tax Revenue (in millions) |
| 2020 |
$764.6 |
| 2019 |
$775.4 |
| 2018 |
$759.1 |
| 2017 |
$690.9 |
| 2016 |
$686.1 |
*ABOUT OUR REGISTER DATA: You can view METRO’s register
data several ways. Choose the month you wish to view, and then sort
on any of the available columns, by clicking on the heading of that
column. You can also download an Excel spreadsheet of the data that
can be used to calculate monthly totals.