Federal Work-Study Program — CFDA 84.033

Work-study obligations at $3.28 billion

USAspending.gov records $3,282,742,755.06 in obligations under CFDA 84.033. Eight thousand six hundred eighty-eight awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $378,000 per award — smaller than a typical research grant and consistent with campus-level student-aid awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical student earnings total.

The assistance-listing title is FEDERAL WORK-STUDY PROGRAM. CFDA 84.033 is the identifier. Pell, SEOG, and other campus-aid listings are separate CFDA numbers and are not mixed into the $3.28 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined student-aid total this packet does not contain.

3,115 campuses across 58 states

Three thousand one hundred fifteen recipients share 8,688 awards, or about 2.8 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $3.28 billion evenly would assign about $1.05 million per recipient. That pattern matches a campus-aid portfolio in which institutions hold a few award years. The packet does not list the 3,115. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of students or work-study jobs.

Fifty-eight states in the geographic count show nationwide coding, including territories as the source stored them. Aid dollars still concentrate at large campuses. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a student count

Among education listings, 84.033 is a wide-roster file: 8,688 rows against 3,115 recipients. Annual campus awards and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique institutions. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of work-study students.” Recipients (3,115) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (8,688) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report student headcount, hours worked, or wages paid. Citing 8,688 as students or jobs would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus work-study outlays

The $3.28 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Federal Work-Study awards — are not in the packet. A campus can show a large obligation stock while student payroll follows an academic calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 84.033 to size the Federal Work-Study listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a student-earnings dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 84.033.

What the 84.033 tables omit

The Federal Work-Study hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a student roster, not a job board, and not a ranking of campuses by aid. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $3,282,742,755.06. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 8,688 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 58 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid as student wages.

Where the 84.033 table lives

The Federal Work-Study program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 84.033 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other education listings. For 84.033 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 84.033’s 8,688 awards spread $3,282,742,755.06 across 3,115 recipients and 58 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 2.8 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 84.033 is indexed at $3,282,742,755.06 in obligations, 8,688 awards, 3,115 recipients, and 58 states on USAspending.gov. Federal Work-Study Program should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $3.28 billion figure sizes the listing in the assistance file. It does not convert obligations into outlays, and it does not convert award count into a service, patient, student, or project census.

Readers who need the overlay tables should start on the program page for CFDA 84.033, then rank the listing on the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings; they do not replace the $3,282,742,755.06 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Federal Work-Study Program: dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov, award count as a stored-row count, recipient count as the organizational headcount (including 0 when the extract stores none), and the state figure as a geographic coding count.

Questions

How much is obligated for Federal Work-Study?

USAspending.gov records $3,282,742,755.06 in obligations for CFDA 84.033. SpendingVault indexes 8,688 awards, 3,115 recipients, and 58 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a student count. CFDA 84.033’s $3.28 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 84.033 carry?

The listing shows 8,688 awards against 3,115 recipients, or about 2.8 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $378,000 per award. Award count is not a student or job count. Recipient dollars are on the program page. CFDA 84.033’s $3.28 billion on 8,688 awards, with 3,115 recipients and 58 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many organizations receive Federal Work-Study awards?

The extract lists 3,115 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 84.033. Geographic coding covers 58 states. The packet does not name the 3,115 or publish student earnings. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 84.033’s $3.28 billion on 8,688 awards, with 3,115 recipients and 58 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $3.28 billion already paid as student wages?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 84.033’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or students employed. The $3.28 billion on 8,688 awards is the obligation figure.