Translation and interpretation services (NAICS 541930) contract obligations

Nearly twenty thousand awards on a language-services code

The $2,303,714,665.42 obligation stock sits on 19,873 contract awards, implying about $115,900 per award. That high action count with a moderate average is consistent with many task orders against language IDIQs rather than a handful of capital projects. The packet does not list languages or courts. It supports the sum and the count.

All other professional, scientific, and technical services is a different residual code. Court reporting, document preparation, and custom programming are also separate when tagged that way. Only awards reported as 541930 feed this $2.30 billion.

Services obligations, not staffing levels

USAspending.gov records committed contract amounts. It does not publish interpreter headcount or hours. Citing $2,303,714,665.42 as payroll is incorrect. Citing it as cash already paid is also incorrect unless you have outlays, which this packet does not.

Assistance awards may omit NAICS. A grant that funded community interpretation would not increment this industry total. Keep 541930 on the contract hub.

What 19,873 does not count

The award count includes modifications and orders that keep 541930. It is not 19,873 vendors and not 19,873 translated documents. One governmentwide language vehicle can generate a large share of those rows. The industry page lists recipients.

Neighboring professional-services codes

Engineering, R&D, and other management consulting appear elsewhere in the extract with different award volumes. Compare them on the all-industries index. Do not fold those codes into translation without citing each NAICS.

Using the translation hub

The Translation and Interpretation Services industry page lists the USAspending.gov actions behind $2.30 billion. Agencies and vendors belong there. This guide does not invent language pairs or clearance levels.

Citing 541930 without converting it into a linguist census

Quote $2,303,714,665.42 as USAspending contract obligations on 19,873 awards tagged NAICS 541930. Do not convert the total into interpreters employed. Language-service codes record contractor commitments as classified, not personnel rosters.

Machine-translation software, if bought as packaged software, may carry a software-publisher NAICS when tagged that way and would not sit inside $2.30 billion. Labor-hour interpretation tagged 541930 would. The table follows the reported code, not the technology used.

The 19,873-award count should travel with the dollars so readers see a high-volume services book. Warehouse refreshes can move both figures. Recoding task orders to a broader professional-services residual would send new actions off this page.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside. Quote USAspending.gov, quote obligations, quote 19,873 awards, and open the hub for recipients. Stop before treating translation and interpretation services as advice about which language a program should use.

Readers quoting this industry should keep two packet facts in one sentence: $2,303,714,665 in USAspending.gov contract obligations and 19,873 awards tagged NAICS 541930 (TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES). Dropping either figure hides whether the book is a few large vehicles or many small orders. The rounded obligation used for citation is $2,303,714,665; cents on the source total, if any, do not change the industry identity of the code.

TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES shows a high award-record count (19,873), consistent with catalog orders, task orders, and modifications that keep the same NAICS. It is not a census of vendors. Professional-services codes record tagged contractor commitments, not hours billed as payroll and not a headcount of specialists. TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES follows the reported six digits. Record corrections in the USAspending.gov warehouse can move both the $2,303,714,665 and the 19,873-award count. Treat the live TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES industry page as current and this file as a reading of the harvested packet.

Internal comparison belongs on the all-industries index, where NAICS 541930 sits beside other six-digit contract totals. Adding neighboring codes by hand creates a new total this packet does not contain; cite each NAICS if you add. Assistance awards that omit NAICS remain outside $2,303,714,665. Outlays remain unpublished here. Quote obligations, quote 19,873 awards, cite USAspending.gov, and open the overlay hub for recipients rather than inventing agencies, fiscal years, or unit counts the packet does not list.

A second check on language: do not call $2,303,714,665 an appropriation, a budget request, or cash disbursed. It is the recorded contract-obligation stock for TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES (NAICS 541930) in the indexed USAspending.gov extract. Do not call 19,873 a count of establishments. It is an award-record count. Those two constraints are the whole method of this guide.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 541930 translation services?

USAspending.gov contract awards tagged Translation and Interpretation Services show $2,303,714,665.42 in obligations on 19,873 awards. That is a procurement commitment total, not linguist payroll and not outlays. USAspending.gov is the source for the $2,303,714,665 obligation stock and the 19,873 contract awards tagged TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES (NAICS 541930). Assistance awards that omit NAICS are outside both figures.

Why are there nearly 20,000 awards?

The indexed file contains 19,873 contract records with NAICS 541930, including task orders and modifications. Language IDIQs often generate many actions. The count is not a count of vendors or documents. Keep the citation on contract obligations: $2,303,714,665 on 19,873 awards coded NAICS 541930. Outlays, grants without NAICS, and unit counts are not in the packet that produced this page.

Does this include grants for language access?

Assistance awards often lack NAICS, so they are omitted from this rollup. The $2,303,714,665.42 is the contract slice tagged 541930. The industry hub lists the underlying USAspending.gov rows. This answer restates only packet facts: NAICS 541930, $2,303,714,665 obligated, and 19,873 awards for TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES.

Is translation the same as all other professional services?

No. Residual professional-services NAICS, when used, sit on other industry pages. Only awards reported as 541930 feed the $2,303,714,665.42 and the 19,873-award count. Do not treat 19,873 as establishments or $2,303,714,665 as cash disbursed. Both numbers describe USAspending.gov contract actions tagged NAICS 541930 (TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES), not assistance and not outlays.