How much federal spending is obligated in Michigan?

USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault show $388.89B in obligations for Michigan in FY 2024–2026 across 861,129 awards. The total is obligations, not Treasury outlays.

Why does Michigan have so many awards relative to dollars?

This extract lists 861,129 Michigan awards against $388.89B, versus 331,691 Massachusetts awards against $393.18B. Michigan’s implied average per action is lower. The packet does not name award types behind the long tail.

Is $388.89B cash paid in Michigan?

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

Which years does the Michigan total cover?

Fiscal years 2024 through 2026. The $388.89B figure is a window sum, not a single-year appropriation.

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Federal dollars obligated in Michigan

Michigan records $388.89B in federal obligations for fiscal years 2024 through 2026 in USAspending.gov award files. SpendingVault indexes 861,129 awards with a Michigan tag—more than twice Massachusetts’s 331,691 actions against a slightly smaller dollar book. The implied average falls near $452,000 per action. The $388.89B figure is obligations, not Treasury outlays and not a transfer to Lansing.

Key figures

Michigan obligations total $388.89B for FY 2024–2026.
The extract counts 861,129 awards—thick relative to the dollar book.
Dollars sit near Massachusetts; action volume does not.
Cite USAspending obligations, not Treasury outlays.
The Michigan spending hub holds the live tables.

A $388.89B book with an 861,129-action file

Michigan is the high-volume member of the high-$300B band. Dollars sit just under Massachusetts’s $393.18B. Award count does not: 861,129 versus 331,691. In this extract, Michigan’s statewide file is thick relative to its obligation sum. That is the fact this overlay is built on. It is not a verdict on auto, health, or any other sector—the packet has no sector field.

The Michigan spending hub is where those 861,129 rows roll up. Agency pages split the same universe by funding department. This page cites $388.89B, 861,129 awards, and FY 2024–2026 only.

High action count is not a recipient census

A file this large is mostly small rows plus modifications. Unique entities are unpublished in this packet. Restating 861,129 as Michigan companies would invent a number the facts do not contain.

Mean size near $452,000 is $388.89B divided by 861,129. It is below the means for Massachusetts and Washington in this harvest and above Illinois’s mean. Median size is unpublished. Amount sort on the hub finds dollar drivers; the long tail inflates the count.

Obligation versus outlay on Michigan-tagged awards

USAspending.gov award files record commitments. Treasury outlays record cash. Michigan’s $388.89B can include awards that have not yet paid out or that later deobligate. Treating $388.89B as cash already spent in Michigan uses the wrong series.

SpendingVault keeps the hub in obligation language so this overlay and the table match. Copied summaries should carry the source note. If the files revise, the live hub is the current total.

Placing Michigan on compare pages

State comparisons put $388.89B just below the $390B cluster and above North Carolina’s $381.66B. Per-capita rankings need population, which is not in this packet, so no per-person Michigan figure is computed here.

On an action sort, Michigan sits with the thick-file states, closer to Pennsylvania’s volume class than to Massachusetts. Quote both metrics. The Michigan spending hub holds the live tables.

The three-year window

Min FY 2024 and max FY 2026 bound the extract. Michigan’s $388.89B is a three-year stack. FY 2026 can still be filling in. Quote the year range so a one-year Michigan chart is not mistaken for this page.

Questions

How much federal spending is obligated in Michigan?: USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault show $388.89B in obligations for Michigan in FY 2024–2026 across 861,129 awards. The total is obligations, not Treasury outlays.
Why does Michigan have so many awards relative to dollars?: This extract lists 861,129 Michigan awards against $388.89B, versus 331,691 Massachusetts awards against $393.18B. Michigan’s implied average per action is lower. The packet does not name award types behind the long tail.
Is $388.89B cash paid in Michigan?: No. Obligations are award commitments. Outlays are cash and can trail or change. This page cites award-file obligations only.
Which years does the Michigan total cover?: Fiscal years 2024 through 2026. The $388.89B figure is a window sum, not a single-year appropriation.

Obligations from USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault. Not Treasury outlays.