Merit Systems Protection Board

353 awards on $23.6 million

MSPB adjudicates federal employee appeals, including adverse actions and whistleblower-related claims. None of those docket counts are in this packet. $23,560,146.63 is what the Board obligated on federal awards through FY2026. Dividing by 353 awards yields about $66,743 per award—a low mean for this dollar band, consistent with many small administrative instruments rather than a few giant technical-support contracts.

A 353-award book on $23,560,146.63 is a high-count, low-mean pattern: many small administrative instruments rather than a handful of giant technical-support contracts. USAspending is showing a buying pattern, not an “importance” score. Other civil-service bodies keep their own CGACs and their own award counts.

Appeals are not in the award file

Initial decisions, Petition for Review outcomes, and stay requests are MSPB caseload statistics. They are not the 353 USAspending rows. A year with more appeals does not automatically change $23,560,146.63. A hearing-support or IT vehicle can change it with no change in filings.

Administrative judges’ salaries generally never appear as awards. The $23.6 million understates the Board’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an award ledger.

Questions

How much has MSPB obligated on USAspending?

The Merit Systems Protection Board shows $23,560,146.63 in obligations through FY2026 across 353 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 389 is the filter. The total is not a count of employee appeals. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 389 is the source for the current 353-award book.

Why does MSPB have 353 awards on only $23.6 million?

The extract counts 353 instruments for CGAC 389. Dividing $23,560,146.63 by that count yields about $66,743 per award. Many small administrative awards produce a high count and a low mean. The packet has no median. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 389?

389 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Merit Systems Protection Board. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/389/. OSC, OPM, and EEOC use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $23.6 million include back pay ordered in appeals?

Not as a standard USAspending award to a vendor. This page reports MSPB awarding-agency obligations of $23,560,146.63 on 353 awards through FY2026. Outlays are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.