Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service federal obligations

Mediation caseloads versus an $18.2 million award ledger

FMCS mediators work private-sector and some public-sector labor disputes. None of those case counts are in this packet. $18,231,338.15 is what the Service obligated on federal awards through FY2026—training, IT, facilities, grants that appear as awards, and other instruments tagged to CGAC 093. A strike-heavy year does not automatically raise this total. A systems contract can raise it in a quiet bargaining year.

One hundred nineteen awards against $18.2 million implies about $153,205 per award. That modest mean on a modest count fits a small independent service buying support rather than running a high-volume endowment. The packet has no median.

NLRB and FLRA are different books

The National Labor Relations Board adjudicates unfair-labor-practice and representation cases. The Federal Labor Relations Authority handles the federal sector. FMCS mediates. Their USAspending totals are separate awarding-agency books. Adding them by hand invents a combined “labor” agency that USAspending does not publish.

Mediator salaries generally never appear as awards. The $18.2 million understates FMCS’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an award ledger.

FY2026 cutoff

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $18,231,338.15 is cumulative through that horizon, not FMCS’s FY2026 appropriation alone. Multi-year training or IT awards remain in the running total until closed.

Outlays are unpublished. Treat the figure as commitments for awarding agency 093. Labor-management grants, if present among the 119, are still obligations rather than proof that a dispute settled.

CGAC 093

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service rows use awarding-agency code 093. SpendingVault’s /agencies/093/ path is keyed to it. Code 093 is an identifier, not an FMCS case number. Department of Labor employment-and-training awards use other CGACs even when they fund related workplace programs.

State tables and bargaining geography

The state table for agency 093 attributes the 119 awards using USAspending location fields. That map is vendor and performance geography, not a heat map of strikes. A large state share can be a headquarters contractor or a training vendor, not a claim that that state had more lockouts.

Open the FMCS agency page for the live $18,231,338.15 and 119-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 093. Dollar rank among independents is not a ranking of labor peace.

Bargaining calendars versus 119 contracted support rows

Strike and lockout calendars are labor-market events. They are not the 119 USAspending awards. A noisy bargaining year can leave $18,231,338.15 unchanged if mediators are on staff. A training or IT vehicle can move it in a quiet year. Keep dispute counts and the award ledger separate.

The state table for agency 093 is vendor and performance geography, not a heat map of work stoppages. A large share in one state can be a headquarters contractor or a training vendor. Open award-level records for recipient names. The packet does not list them.

Mediator salaries generally never appear among the 119 rows, so the $18.2 million understates full operating cost. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the FMCS agency page for live tables. Keep CGAC 093 unmerged with other labor-relations awarding agencies. Labor-management grants, if present among the 119, are still obligations rather than proof that a dispute settled. Outlays are unpublished.

Notice-of-bargaining filings and FMCS case-closed counts are agency statistics. They are not the 119 USAspending awards. Mixing a case-closed series with $18,231,338.15 would treat a training invoice as if it were a settled contract dispute. This file stays on CGAC 093 obligations through FY2026. Use the FMCS agency page for live tables. Keep this book unmerged with other labor-relations awarding agencies. The mean of about $153,205 is an unsplit average of whatever instruments the warehouse stored.

Grants for labor-management cooperation, if present among the 119 awards, are still obligations rather than settled disputes. The packet does not flag them. The $18,231,338.15 is unsplit through FY2026 for CGAC 093. Open award-level records if assistance versus contract is the question. Use the FMCS agency page for live tables. Mediator payroll remains mostly outside this file. Strike maps remain other data, not this state award table.

Questions

How much has FMCS obligated on USAspending?

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service shows $18,231,338.15 in obligations through FY2026 across 119 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 093 is the filter. The total is not a count of mediation cases. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 093 is the source for the current 119-award book.

What is the average FMCS award?

Dividing $18,231,338.15 by 119 awards yields about $153,205. The packet has no median. Training, IT, and other administrative instruments share the same mean. 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 093?

093 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for FMCS. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/093/. NLRB, FLRA, and the Labor Department 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.

Is $18.2 million the same as NLRB spending?

No. The National Labor Relations Board is a separate awarding agency with its own CGAC. FMCS is CGAC 093 with $18,231,338.15 on 119 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.