Illinois vs Pennsylvania on USAspending: two million-plus award files

Two crowded row files, one heavier stock

Illinois at $15.9B and Pennsylvania at $28.1B are both large statewide files. The interesting question is which ranking disagrees. Award counts are 1,544,633 versus 1,468,918. Populations are 12,710,158 versus 13,078,751. Per capita is $143.78 versus $239.68. These figures are USAspending.gov obligations by place of performance, not Treasury outlays. Cash payments can lag award dates. Headquarters can differ from the state coded on the award.

Illinois’s 1,544,633 awards slightly top Pennsylvania’s 1,468,918 even while dollars trail $15.9B to $28.1B. A close or mid-range dollar gap can hide a wide row gap or a wide intensity gap. This pair is built for that kind of split, not for a blowout stock ranking.

Miscellaneous manufacturing vs medicinal manufacturing

Illinois’s top industry is all other miscellaneous manufacturing. Pennsylvania’s top industry is medicinal and botanical manufacturing. Two large files can still wear different NAICS peaks. All other miscellaneous manufacturing versus medicinal and botanical manufacturing is a manufacturing-versus-manufacturing split on two of the busiest award files in this set. People are nearly tied; dollars are not.

Industry tags on $15.9B and $28.1B are peaks inside mixed statewide aggregates. They do not license a one-industry story for 1,544,633 or 1,468,918 awards. Use the comparison hub for the side-by-side tables, then the Illinois and Pennsylvania state hubs for agencies and recipients.

Nearly matched Census counts, unmatched dollars

FY2026 obligations are $1.8B in Illinois and $3.1B in Pennsylvania. Recency may favor a different leader than the stacked stock, or it may agree. Either result is still obligations. Do not divide latest-year dollars by all-years award counts.

Per capita of $143.78 and $239.68 stays on 12,710,158 and 13,078,751 against stacked $15.9B and $28.1B. FY2026 is the recency slice.

FY2026: $1.8B vs $3.1B

When two files are both large, the comparison is a ranking puzzle: dollars, rows, people, intensity, mix, recency. $15.9B versus $28.1B is the stock piece. 1,544,633 versus 1,468,918 is the row piece. $143.78 versus $239.68 is the intensity piece.

These figures are USAspending.gov obligations by place of performance, not Treasury outlays. Cash payments can lag award dates. Headquarters can differ from the state coded on the award. Use the comparison hub for the side-by-side tables, then the Illinois and Pennsylvania state hubs for agencies and recipients.

How to read Illinois against Pennsylvania

Read this pair without forcing a single winner. all other miscellaneous manufacturing versus medicinal and botanical manufacturing is mix. FY2026 ($1.8B vs $3.1B) is recency. The stacked totals remain $15.9B versus $28.1B on USAspending.gov.

Place of performance can differ from headquarters. That caveat is shared. It does not flatten the ranking splits this pair actually shows.

Matched rows and people, unmatched dollars

Pennsylvania’s $28.1B versus Illinois’s $15.9B and $239.68 versus $143.78 are the dollar and intensity leads on 13,078,751 versus 12,710,158 residents. Illinois’s 1,544,633 versus 1,468,918 awards is a thin row lead. FY2026’s $3.1B versus $1.8B follows stock. Those figures remain obligations, not Treasury outlays.

Two manufacturing peaks on two busy files still leave Pennsylvania heavier. Both are USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays. Use the Illinois and Pennsylvania hubs for agencies and recipients.

Illinois versus Pennsylvania on USAspending.gov is $15.9B versus $28.1B in stacked obligations, 1,544,633 versus 1,468,918 awards, 12,710,158 versus 13,078,751 residents, $143.78 versus $239.68 per capita, and $1.8B versus $3.1B in FY2026. Top industries remain all other miscellaneous manufacturing and medicinal and botanical manufacturing. Those cuts are the packet.

Do not divide FY2026 dollars by all-years award counts. Do not treat $143.78 and $239.68 as household income. Do not treat all other miscellaneous manufacturing or medicinal and botanical manufacturing as a complete industrial census. Place of performance can differ from headquarters. Cash outlays can lag. After the comparison table, the Illinois and Pennsylvania state hubs hold agencies and recipients. FY2026 still shows $1.8B in Illinois and $3.1B in Pennsylvania on the same obligations series as the $15.9B versus $28.1B stock.

Questions

Which has more federal spending, Illinois or Pennsylvania?

Illinois shows $15.9B in USAspending.gov obligations; Pennsylvania shows $28.1B. Award counts are 1,544,633 and 1,468,918. Populations are 12,710,158 and 13,078,751. Spending per capita is $143.78 versus $239.68. FY2026 obligations are $1.8B and $3.1B. These are obligations, not Treasury outlays. These figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not Treasury outlays.

What industries lead Illinois and Pennsylvania federal awards?

Illinois’s top industry is all other miscellaneous manufacturing. Pennsylvania’s top industry is medicinal and botanical manufacturing. Those slices sit on $15.9B and $28.1B in USAspending.gov obligations and on 1,544,633 versus 1,468,918 awards. They mark the largest grouping in each file, not every award.

How do Illinois and Pennsylvania compare on spending per capita?

Spending per capita is $143.78 in Illinois on 12,710,158 residents and $239.68 in Pennsylvania on 13,078,751 residents. Those ratios use stacked USAspending.gov obligations of $15.9B and $28.1B, not FY2026 alone and not GDP. These figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not Treasury outlays.

Are Illinois vs Pennsylvania figures Treasury outlays?

No. The $15.9B and $28.1B stacked totals, and FY2026 amounts of $1.8B and $3.1B, are USAspending.gov obligations by place of performance. Outlays are cash payments and can lag. Award counts are 1,544,633 and 1,468,918. These figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not Treasury outlays.