Federal obligations in temporary help services (NAICS 561320)

Staffing supply, not a federal headcount NAICS

NAICS 561320 covers establishments that supply temporary workers to client organizations. A contract to staff a warehouse surge, a medical clinic backfill, or an administrative surge can land here when the award is tagged as temporary help. Direct federal employment, IT staff-augmentation tagged as computer services, and PEO/leased-employee arrangements sit on other codes. The $4,494,714,011.03 total is the temporary-help tag, not “all contractor labor.”

Office administrative services (561110) and human-resources consulting (541612) are neighboring administrative classes. Adding them to 561320 would mix temp supply with office-management and HR-advice codes. SpendingVault reports the USAspending NAICS on the action, not an FEC occupation string such as “staffing” and not an OPM on-board headcount.

11,575 awards on a $4.49 billion obligation stock

Eleven thousand five hundred seventy-five awards produced $4,494,714,011.03 in obligations. That action count is thicker than sparse manufacturing vehicles and thinner than wholesale codes with hundreds of thousands of delivery orders. Task orders against staffing IDIQs can stack without each order being a new vendor. The packet does not publish unique-vendor counts inside the 11,575 figure.

Obligations move with new awards, options, and modifications, including deobligations when a surge ends early. Outlays are payments for hours worked and are not this $4,494,714,011.03 rollup. A vehicle can show a large ceiling-style commitment while invoices follow timesheets. The industry page does not convert obligations into an FTE calendar.

Contract NAICS versus training and job grants

USAspending.gov stores NAICS on contract actions. WIOA, AmeriCorps, and many workforce grants are assistance instruments and often have no NAICS field. Those dollars will not add to the 11,575 awards even when the work looks like temporary placement. Open program pages for grant-funded workforce activity.

The label is a Census administrative-and-support classification. It is not a GSA schedule name by itself, not a union hiring-hall roster, and not campaign-finance text. Cite USAspending.gov via SpendingVault for $4,494,714,011.03 and the 11,575-award count.

Reading the 561320 table

The hub lists recipients and awards that share this NAICS tag. A large obligation is a disclosed commitment to a staffing firm (or a firm tagged as one on that action). It is not a finding that federal jobs were outsourced improperly, that wages were short, or that a small business was excluded. SpendingVault does not score labor practices from the dollar total.

Use award IDs, not the $4,494,714,011.03 headline, to separate two companies. Subcontracted specialty shops may be missing if the prime coded temporary help. UEI and name changes are ordinary in the file.

Neighboring administrative NAICS

HR consulting (541612), office administrative services (561110), and facilities support (561210) are separate pages. Adding them to $4,494,714,011.03 would mix advice, office management, and base operations with temp supply. That recode is not this page.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside the 11,575-award count. For a staffing firm that also holds training grants, open the recipient record. This guide stays on contract NAICS 561320 from USAspending.gov. Keep obligations distinct from outlays: the headline is commitments, not hours already paid.

Temp help versus staff augmentation on other codes

Many federal “staff augmentation” buys are tagged as computer systems design, engineering, or professional services rather than 561320. Those actions will not raise the 11,575-award count. Conversely, a clerical surge tagged temporary help will sit in $4,494,714,011.03 even if the same vendor also holds a 541512 vehicle. SpendingVault does not reclassify the vendor’s other NAICS rows into this total.

Searchers who want “all contractor labor” must add many codes and still miss assistance. This page does not perform that recode. Cite contract NAICS 561320 only. Do not treat the row as an FEC employer cluster or as a substitute for OPM employment statistics. The $4,494,714,011.03 figure remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov. Modifications that cut a surge will lower the running total without a matching “layoff” statistic on this hub. Open award rows for labor-category detail the NAICS rollup does not publish. Neighboring 5613 employment-services lines stay on their own industry pages unless those awards were themselves tagged 561320. A clerical surge tagged 561320 still sits in $4,494,714,011.03 even if the same vendor holds computer-services vehicles elsewhere.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated under NAICS 561320?

USAspending.gov contract aggregates on SpendingVault show $4,494,714,011.03 in obligations across 11,575 awards tagged temporary help services. The number is obligations, not outlays. Assistance workforce grants without NAICS are omitted. It is not an OPM headcount, not an FEC staffing-firm string, and not all contractor labor combined.

Does this include IT staff-augmentation contracts?

Many staff-augmentation actions are tagged as computer or professional-services NAICS, not 561320. Those awards will not add to the $4,494,714,011.03 total. The 11,575 awards are the temporary-help contract tag from USAspending.gov via SpendingVault. Adding 541512 or 541330 is a recode you must document.

Are these figures payroll outlays?

No. They are obligations: legally binding commitments on contract actions. Outlays are payments against timesheets and are not this $4,494,714,011.03 rollup. A staffing vehicle can obligate a large amount while invoices follow hours. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov contract NAICS for the 11,575 awards, not a payroll extract.

Why are job-training grants missing from the total?

Those programs are usually assistance awards. Assistance often has no NAICS, so it does not add to the 11,575 contract awards or $4,494,714,011.03. Open program pages for grant activity. This industry page reports only contract actions tagged 561320 in USAspending.gov.