Federal dollars obligated in Massachusetts

A cluster-closing dollar book with a mid-size action file

Massachusetts’s $393.18B is a few billion below South Carolina’s $395.96B and Arizona’s $396.63B. Washington’s 333,984 awards are the closer count neighbor; Massachusetts has 331,691. The implied average is about $1.19 million per action, in the same band as Washington’s mean in this extract. Similar dollars plus similar counts still do not make the files identical—they only make the two statewide headlines rhyme.

The Massachusetts spending hub is the table for $393.18B. This overlay does not break the total by agency or NAICS, because those fields are not in the packet. Follow the agencies index for department rollups. Follow state comparisons to keep FY 2024–2026 fixed.

331,691 awards are actions, including modifications

Award count is not unique recipients. This packet does not publish a recipient total. One organization can hold many of the 331,691 rows. Restating the count as Massachusetts vendors would invent a census.

Mean size is $393.18B divided by 331,691. Median size is unpublished. Amount sort on the hub shows whether jumbo actions drive dollars; this page does not pre-rank those rows.

What the Massachusetts headline is not

USAspending.gov award files record obligations. Treasury outlays record cash. Massachusetts’s $393.18B can include commitments that have not yet paid out or that later deobligate. A sentence that says Massachusetts already received $393.18B in federal cash uses the wrong series.

Place-of-performance tags can attach work performed in Massachusetts even when the prime recipient sits elsewhere. Read $393.18B as tagged-action obligations, not as “spending by Massachusetts-headquartered firms.” SpendingVault keeps that definition on the hub.

Compare and rankings without extra math

State comparisons put $393.18B on the shared obligation clock, at the low end of the $390B cluster and above Michigan’s $388.89B. Per-capita rankings need population, which is not in this packet, so no per-resident Massachusetts figure is computed here.

Quote $393.18B with 331,691 awards and the year range. Dropping the count hides the Washington-like file shape; dropping the dollars hides that Massachusetts is still a $390B-class book in this extract.

FY 2024–2026 as one window

Min FY 2024 and max FY 2026 bound the extract. Massachusetts’s $393.18B is a three-year stack. FY 2026 can still be incomplete. A one-year Massachusetts federal-spending chart from another publisher is a different object.

Questions

How much federal spending is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault show $393.18B in obligations for Massachusetts in FY 2024–2026 across 331,691 awards. The total is obligations, not Treasury outlays.

Is Massachusetts close to Washington on both dollars and awards?

In this harvest, Massachusetts lists $393.18B and 331,691 awards; Washington lists $401.45B and 333,984 awards. The action files are close; Washington’s dollar book is larger.

Does $393.18B mean cash paid in Massachusetts?

No. Obligations are award commitments. Outlays are cash and can trail or change. This page cites award-file obligations only.

Which fiscal years are in the Massachusetts total?

FY 2024 through FY 2026. The $393.18B figure is a window sum, not a single-year appropriation.