Merit Systems Protection Board federal obligations

353 awards on $23.6 million

MSPB adjudicates federal employee appeals, including adverse actions and whistleblower-related claims. None of those docket counts are in this packet. $23,560,146.63 is what the Board obligated on federal awards through FY2026. Dividing by 353 awards yields about $66,743 per award—a low mean for this dollar band, consistent with many small administrative instruments rather than a few giant technical-support contracts.

A 353-award book on $23,560,146.63 is a high-count, low-mean pattern: many small administrative instruments rather than a handful of giant technical-support contracts. USAspending is showing a buying pattern, not an “importance” score. Other civil-service bodies keep their own CGACs and their own award counts.

Appeals are not in the award file

Initial decisions, Petition for Review outcomes, and stay requests are MSPB caseload statistics. They are not the 353 USAspending rows. A year with more appeals does not automatically change $23,560,146.63. A hearing-support or IT vehicle can change it with no change in filings.

Administrative judges’ salaries generally never appear as awards. The $23.6 million understates the Board’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 $23,560,146.63 is cumulative through that horizon, not MSPB’s FY2026 appropriation alone. Small purchase orders still add to the 353 count even when they barely move the dollar total.

Outlays are unpublished. Treat the figure as commitments for awarding agency 389. High award count means the state table can populate more jurisdictions than a 36-row book of similar dollars.

CGAC 389 versus OSC and OPM

Merit Systems Protection Board rows use awarding-agency code 389. The Office of Special Counsel, OPM, and EEOC are separate CGACs. Whistleblower investigation, personnel policy, and discrimination enforcement are different jobs and different award books. SpendingVault’s /agencies/389/ path stays on MSPB.

Regional hearing sites and state attribution

MSPB maintains regional and field offices. The state table for agency 389 attributes the 353 awards using USAspending geography fields, which may or may not match office maps. A large state share can be a vendor location, not a claim that that state’s federal employees filed more appeals.

Open the MSPB agency page for the live $23,560,146.63 and 353-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 389. Dollar rank is not a ranking of civil-service conflict.

Hearing sites, appeals volume, and 353 small instruments

MSPB regional and field offices host hearings. Those office maps are not automatically the 353 USAspending awards. A region with a heavy appeals docket can show little award geography if most work is done by administrative judges on payroll. A region with a hearing-support vendor tagged there can show a large state share on the agency 389 table.

The low mean of about $66,743 on 353 awards is the structural fact: many small administrative instruments. A high-count book populates more jurisdictions than a thin technical-support book of similar dollars. The packet still has no median. Open award-level records for recipient names; this roll-up does not list them.

Appeal outcomes and back-pay orders are caseload statistics, not vendor obligations. They do not sit inside the $23,560,146.63. FY2026 is the cutoff, not a civil-service reform date. Use the MSPB agency page for live tables. Keep CGAC 389 unmerged with other personnel-adjudication awarding agencies. Judge salaries generally never appear among the 353 rows. Outlays are unpublished.

Whistleblower-related appeals and adverse-action appeals share the same 353-row book without being labeled. The packet does not split case types, and it does not split award types. The $23,560,146.63 is the combined stock through FY2026 for CGAC 389. Readers who need hearing-support versus IT must open award-level records. Use the MSPB agency page for live tables. Appeal outcomes remain caseload statistics, not vendor obligations. The low mean of about $66,743 is the high-count pattern of this extract.

Electronic-filing and transcript awards can multiply the 353-row count without moving dollars much, which is how the mean stays near $66,743. The $23,560,146.63 is the combined stock through FY2026 for CGAC 389. This page will not split those small instruments by type. Use the MSPB agency page for live tables. Appeal outcomes remain caseload statistics. Judge payroll remains mostly outside USAspending awards.

Questions

How much has MSPB obligated on USAspending?

The Merit Systems Protection Board shows $23,560,146.63 in obligations through FY2026 across 353 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 389 is the filter. The total is not a count of employee appeals. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 389 is the source for the current 353-award book.

Why does MSPB have 353 awards on only $23.6 million?

The extract counts 353 instruments for CGAC 389. Dividing $23,560,146.63 by that count yields about $66,743 per award. Many small administrative awards produce a high count and a low mean. The packet has no median. 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 389?

389 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Merit Systems Protection Board. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/389/. OSC, OPM, and EEOC 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.

Does $23.6 million include back pay ordered in appeals?

Not as a standard USAspending award to a vendor. This page reports MSPB awarding-agency obligations of $23,560,146.63 on 353 awards through FY2026. Outlays are unpublished in the 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.