National Labor Relations Board federal obligations

A thin award book for a caseload agency

The NLRB’s public output is cases: charges, complaints, hearings, and elections. None of those counts are in this packet. $84,356,863.79 is what the Board obligated on federal awards through FY2026—field-office support, court reporting, IT, facilities, and other instruments in the warehouse. A year with more petitions filed does not automatically move this total. A nationwide systems contract can move it with no change in case volume.

One hundred forty-seven awards is a small book relative to grant-making endowments. Dividing $84,356,863.79 by 147 yields about $573,856 per award. That high mean on a low count is the signature of an enforcement agency that buys fewer, larger support vehicles rather than issuing thousands of assistance awards. The packet has no median.

What $84.4 million leaves off the table

Regional attorneys, field examiners, and Board members are generally paid outside USAspending awards. The $84.4 million therefore understates the NLRB’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an award ledger.

Back-pay recovered for workers in NLRB cases is not an agency obligation to a vendor. Mixing recovered wages with the 147-award total would confuse two different money stories. This page stays on the USAspending side.

FY2026 cutoff and obligation versus outlay

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $84,356,863.79 is cumulative through that horizon, not the Board’s FY2026 appropriation alone. Multi-year IT or lease instruments remain in the running total until closed.

Outlays are unpublished. Treat the figure as commitments tagged to awarding agency 420. De-obligations on unused balances would lower a later extract without appearing as a caseload event.

CGAC 420 versus other labor bodies

NLRB rows use awarding-agency code 420. The Federal Labor Relations Authority (054), the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (093), and the Department of Labor are separate CGACs. Private-sector NLRA work and federal-sector labor-relations work are different statutes and different award books. SpendingVault’s /agencies/420/ path stays on the NLRB.

Regional offices and the state table

The NLRB runs regional offices. The state table for agency 420 attributes the 147 awards using USAspending geography fields, which may or may not align with region boundaries. A large state share can be a lease or a national vendor tagged there, not a claim that that state’s workplaces generate more charges.

Open the NLRB agency page for the live $84,356,863.79 and 147-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 420. Dollar rank is not a ranking of unionization or of labor unrest.

Regions, charges, and why 147 awards ignore the docket

NLRB regional offices receive charges and petitions. Those caseload maps are not the 147 USAspending awards. A region with a heavy docket can show little award geography if most work is done by staff. A region with a large lease or a national vendor tagged there can show a large state share on the agency 420 table. Overlaying charge maps and award maps without that caveat will mislead.

Back pay and other remedies in Board cases are not agency obligations to vendors. They do not sit inside the $84,356,863.79. Mixing recovered wages with the 147-row book confuses two money stories. This page stays on awarding-agency commitments for CGAC 420 through FY2026.

Field examiners and regional attorneys are generally paid outside USAspending awards, so the $84.4 million understates full operating cost. FY2026 is the cutoff, not an election-year docket peak. Use the NLRB agency page for live tables. Keep this CGAC unmerged with other labor-relations awarding agencies. Outlays on the 147 instruments are unpublished.

Representation elections and unfair-labor-practice complaints are docket products. They update on a different clock from the 147 awards. A spike in petitions can leave $84,356,863.79 untouched if the extra work is staff time. A nationwide systems vehicle can move the mean of about $573,856 with no change in filings. Cite the NLRB statistical tables for cases and the agency 420 page for USAspending dollars. FY2026 is the award-warehouse cutoff, not an election-year label.

Headquarters support and regional leases can both sit among the 147 awards. The packet does not split them. The $84,356,863.79 is the combined stock through FY2026 for CGAC 420. Readers who need that split should open award-level records. Use the NLRB agency page for live tables. Charge and election statistics remain docket products. The mean of about $573,856 is an unsplit average and not a typical purchase-order size.

Questions

How much has the NLRB obligated on USAspending?

The National Labor Relations Board shows $84,356,863.79 in obligations through FY2026 across 147 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 420 is the filter. The total is not a count of unfair-labor-practice charges or elections. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 420 is the source for the current 147-award book.

Why are there only 147 NLRB awards?

The extract counts 147 instruments for CGAC 420. Dividing $84.4 million by that count yields about $573,856 per award. A caseload agency often buys fewer support contracts than a grant-maker issues assistance awards. 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 420?

420 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the National Labor Relations Board. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/420/. FLRA, FMCS, and the Labor Department 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 $84 million include back pay awarded to workers?

No. Back pay in NLRB cases is not the same object as agency obligations to vendors. This page reports the $84,356,863.79 USAspending award total through FY2026. Outlays on those awards 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.