Department of Labor in Illinois

A thin award tape under $2.62 billion

Two hundred sixty-four awards carrying $2,624,594,222.71 is a sparse file relative to the dollars. The implied mean is about $9,941,645 per award. That average is $2,624,594,222.71 divided by 264, not a typical training grant and not a median. Large formula or insurance-style vehicles can dominate a short award list.

This packet does not name those vehicles or split Unemployment Insurance, Job Corps, OSHA, or other Labor accounts. The join only documents the statewide Labor cell. USAspending.gov is the source.

Illinois hosts a large state workforce agency and a dense set of training and enforcement offices, but this packet does not locate the 264 awards by city. Place-of-performance can sit on a Springfield pass-through even when services occur downstate or in Chicago. The implied mean near $9,941,645 is a file-level ratio. It is not evidence that a typical Illinois worker received that amount.

What Labor × Illinois is and is not

The page is a relationship: Department of Labor as awarding agency, Illinois as place of performance. $2,624,594,222.71 and 264 awards are the two facts in the intersection. The pair does not mean Labor spending caused Illinois employment outcomes, and it does not mean Illinois’s industrial mix caused Labor’s award book.

Place-of-performance can follow a state agency that administers a federal pass-through, a contractor, or a training site. Headquarters in Washington, D.C., or another state can still post Illinois-coded rows. The 264 count is award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique grantees.

BLS employment surveys, UI claims, and OSHA inspection counts are separate publications. Mixing any of them with $2,624,594,222.71 produces a false story. This packet has no program-code mix, so Unemployment Insurance cannot be isolated from Job Corps, OSHA, or other Labor accounts inside the 264 rows.

Questions

How much has the Department of Labor obligated in Illinois?

USAspending.gov shows $2,624,594,222.71 in Labor obligations coded to Illinois across 264 awards. Awarding-agency code 1601 and Illinois place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Why are there only 264 Labor awards in Illinois?

The extract counts 264 award records. Large formula or insurance-style vehicles can produce a short tape with a high implied mean—about $9,941,645 from $2,624,594,222.71 divided by 264. Program splits are not in this packet.

Is this Illinois’s unemployment spending?

The packet does not split Unemployment Insurance from other Labor accounts. $2,624,594,222.71 is the full agency 1601 × Illinois cell. Labor-market statistics are a different product.

Are Labor obligations in Illinois the same as outlays?

No. $2,624,594,222.71 is an obligation sum on 264 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.