Equal Employment Opportunity Commission federal obligations

Enforcement work versus the $338.4 million award ledger

The EEOC receives employment-discrimination charges and may sue or conciliate. None of those case counts are in this packet. $338,381,166.88 is what the commission obligated on federal awards through FY2026: field-office support, expert services, facilities, technology, and other instruments USAspending stores as awards. A year with more charges filed does not, by itself, change this total. A new nationwide IT vehicle can change it without any change in charge volume.

Readers looking for relief recovered for workers will not find it in the 1,004-award table. Monetary benefits in EEOC settlements are not the same object as agency obligations to vendors. This page stays on the USAspending side of that line.

1,004 awards and a $337,000 mean

$338,381,166.88 divided by 1,004 awards is about $337,032 per award. The count itself is the story as much as the mean: just over a thousand instruments, enough to populate many states if field offices and local vendors are tagged in geography fields. The packet still offers no median and no contract-versus-assistance split.

One thousand four awards is also a reminder that the agency page is a roll-up. Vendor names, NAICS codes, and periods of performance live on individual USAspending award records. SpendingVault’s tables summarize; they do not replace the award-level file.

Obligations, outlays, and the FY2026 horizon

An obligation is a commitment. An outlay is cash paid. The packet publishes the first and not the second. Field-office leases and multi-year IT contracts can sit as obligations long before the last invoice is paid. Do not read $338.4 million as “spent this year.”

FY2026 is the cutoff year on the packet. Cumulative awards still in the warehouse feed the $338,381,166.88. The figure is not the EEOC’s FY2026 appropriation by itself. Staff compensation for investigators and attorneys generally never appears among the 1,004 awards, even though that payroll is the core of the enforcement model.

CGAC 045

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission awards in this dataset use code 045. That CGAC is the key behind /agencies/045/. The Department of Labor and the Department of Justice run related civil-rights work under different awarding-agency codes; their dollars are not inside this $338.4 million. Mixing CGACs by hand would blur which agency signed the award.

State shares and field-office geography

The state table for agency 045 attributes the 1,004 awards using USAspending location fields. A large share in a state may reflect a district office lease, a local court-reporting vendor, or a national contractor that listed that state as place of performance. The file does not label which. Charge-filing volume by state is an EEOC statistical product, not this obligation map.

Open the EEOC agency page for the live $338,381,166.88 total. Use the all-agencies index to find CGAC 045 among other independents. Dollar rank is not a measure of discrimination in the labor market; it is a measure of awards this commission signed.

Field offices, leases, and why charge maps diverge from awards

EEOC district and field offices generate many of the location tags on the 1,004 awards. A lease, a court-reporting contract, or a local IT vendor can pin obligations to a state that is not the state with the most charges filed. Charge-filing maps are an EEOC statistical product. The state table for agency 045 is a USAspending geography product. Overlaying them without that caveat will produce a false enforcement-spending-by-state story.

The $338,381,166.88 stock includes whatever instruments remain in the warehouse through FY2026. A nationwide case-management system can dwarf a cluster of small field-office purchases in the average of about $337,032. The packet still has no median. If the question is who got paid, the answer is on award-level records, not in this roll-up.

Litigation outcomes and monetary benefits for workers remain outside the 1,004 rows. Those figures, when published, are caseload statistics. This file stays on awarding-agency obligations for CGAC 045. Use the EEOC agency page for live tables. Use the all-agencies directory to find the code. Dollar rank among independents is not a ranking of workplace discrimination.

Public-facing EEOC data products include charge receipts by statute and by basis. None of those breakouts are in the five packet facts. The $338,381,166.88 and the 1,004 awards are the USAspending slice only. A researcher building a briefing book should cite the agency table for dollars and the EEOC statistical tables for charges, and should not paste one series’s date stamp onto the other. CGAC 045 remains the filter for the award side through FY2026.

Questions

How much has the EEOC obligated on USAspending?

USAspending.gov shows $338,381,166.88 in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission obligations through FY2026 on 1,004 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 045 is the filter. The total is not recovered worker relief and not an outlay sum. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 045 is the source for the current 1004-award book.

Do the 1,004 awards include discrimination cases?

No. The 1,004 count is USAspending award instruments—contracts and other awards the EEOC made. Charges, lawsuits, and settlements are separate EEOC caseload statistics. Average obligation is about $337,032 if you divide $338.4 million by 1,004. 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 045?

045 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/045/. Labor and Justice Department civil-rights awards use other 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.

Is $338 million the EEOC’s annual budget?

No. The figure is cumulative obligations through fiscal year 2026, not a single-year appropriation. Investigator and attorney salaries generally do not appear as USAspending awards. Outlays are unpublished in this 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.