USAspending in Pennsylvania District 04, FY2024

Five hundred forty-two thousand eight hundred seventy-one award records

USAspending counts 542,871 awards with Pennsylvania District 04 place of performance in FY2024. Those records sum to $8.7 billion in obligations. A file this thick cannot be read as 542,871 unique companies. Modifications, assistance actions, and many small rows almost certainly inflate the count. The packet has no unique-recipient count, so 542,871 remains a stock of award actions.

Do not divide $8.7 billion by 542,871. That average is not in the packet and would be misleading on a file this dense. Keep $8,731,580,272.09 and 542,871 as independent facts. Because first year and last year are both 2024, the count is a single-fiscal-year stock, not a lifetime inventory of the 4th district.

Place of performance, not an HQ census of the 4th

Place of performance assigns the district. Recipient headquarters do not. Federal work coded to Pennsylvania’s 4th district can be performed by vendors based in other Pennsylvania districts or in other states. Those awards still sit in the $8.7 billion if the performance tag is PA-04.

Firms with offices inside District 04 can be missing when the work is coded to another Pennsylvania district, to Pennsylvania’s unspecified District 90 bucket, or to another state. HQ lists of “4th district contractors” will not reproduce a 542,871-row file. The $8,731,580,272.09 total follows the PA-04 performance code only.

Numbered seat versus unspecified 90/98 codes

Pennsylvania District 04 is a voting House district. USAspending’s unspecified or non-voting buckets are 90 and 98. This page’s $8.7 billion is mapped to the 4th district’s performance code. Unmapped Pennsylvania performance, if present, would appear on a 90-coded hub, not here.

The Pennsylvania state page mixes numbered districts and any residual codes. Use that page for a statewide place-of-performance total. Use this page when the question is specifically District 04 performance location in FY2024. The all-districts index lists other Pennsylvania seats in the same format.

Obligations, not disbursements

SpendingVault’s district totals are obligations: legal commitments recorded in USAspending. Outlays are payments. The $8.7 billion figure is the former. Contract vehicles can obligate in one year and invoice across several.

The precise FY2024 statement is that agencies obligated $8.7 billion on 542,871 awards with PA-04 place of performance. It is not a statement that $8,731,580,272.09 was paid in cash inside the district that year. FY2024 is the only year in the facts. Federal FY2024 starts October 1.

Pennsylvania pages that sit beside this hub

The Pennsylvania District 04 hub is the award table. The Pennsylvania state page is the statewide rollup. The all-districts index links to other Pennsylvania numbered districts and to unspecified 90/98 codes used in USAspending. A headquarters in the 4th without a PA-04 performance tag does not enter this file.

This packet does not publish other Pennsylvania district totals. None of those other dollars sits inside $8.7 billion. Keep PA-04 citations on the obligation series and the FY2024 window. Pennsylvania District 15 is a separate numbered hub with its own obligation total.

How to read a 542,871-row Pennsylvania file

Five hundred forty-two thousand eight hundred seventy-one awards summing to $8.7 billion is an unusually dense numbered-district file. That row volume is almost certainly many small actions and modifications. It is not 542,871 unique vendors. The Pennsylvania District 04 hub is the only place in this project to inspect the mix; the packet has no agency split.

Cite PA-04 as $8.7 billion in FY2024 USAspending obligations on 542,871 awards with numbered code PA-04. Keep other Pennsylvania seats and any District 90 leftover on other rows. Obligations are not outlays. Headquarters in the 4th without a PA-04 tag does not enter this file. Work coded to PA-04 from a vendor based elsewhere does enter $8.7 billion. Until a later extract, report $8,731,580,272.09 and 542,871 awards for PA-04 place of performance as obligations, not outlays.

Questions

How much federal spending is in Pennsylvania District 04 for FY2024?

USAspending.gov records $8.7 billion in FY2024 obligations with a Pennsylvania District 04 place of performance, across 542,871 awards. The exact sum is $8,731,580,272.09. These are obligations, not outlays. District is performance location, not headquarters. The facts cover FY2024 only.

Why does District 04 have 542,871 awards?

That is the FY2024 award-record count for the PA-04 place-of-performance code. It is not a unique-vendor count. Those records sum to $8.7 billion in obligations. A file this thick usually means many smaller actions and modifications. The packet does not break the file by agency. Do not divide $8.7 billion by 542,871.

Is Pennsylvania District 04 a 90-code unspecified bucket?

No. District 04 is a numbered Pennsylvania congressional district. Codes 90 and 98 are USAspending’s unspecified or non-voting buckets. The $8.7 billion total is mapped to District 04, not to those residual codes. The PA-04 tag is the geography rule.

Do contractors headquartered in the 4th district all appear here?

No. Only awards with PA-04 place of performance enter the $8.7 billion and 542,871-award totals. A headquarters in the district is not sufficient. Work coded to another Pennsylvania district or another state will appear elsewhere. Cite the figure with the obligation label, the FY2024 window, and PA-04 place of performance.