Department of Labor federal obligations in Oklahoma
The Department of Labor–Oklahoma join on USAspending.gov sums to $736,878,143.66 in obligations. 183 award actions carry both the agency 1601 tag and the Oklahoma geography tag. That is not cash already paid, and about $4,026,656.52 per award is a mean, not a typical workforce or unemployment-insurance admin award.
Key figures
- Oklahoma Labor overlay: $736,878,143.66, 183 awards, agency 1601.
- Mean $4,026,656.52 is a ratio, not a typical workforce or unemployment-insurance admin award.
- Statewide tag — does not split Oklahoma City from Tulsa or Norman.
- Correlation is not causation.
Oklahoma place of performance for Department of Labor
Awarding agency 1601 and place-of-performance state OK meet here. $736,878,143.66 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Labor's nationwide budget, not Oklahoma's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Job-training, ui administration, and workforce-board folklore and energy-corridor and tribal-nation folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of workforce boards.
183 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a mid-size award list beside a large obligation total. A mid-size row list can mix large instruments with smaller service awards. The join does not rank Oklahoma against other states and does not name state workforce agencies inside the extract.
Open Department of Labor in Oklahoma for the filtered table, Oklahoma federal spending for the next hub, Department of Labor for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.
Award count 183 is a record count
Dividing $736,878,143.66 by 183 yields about $4,026,656.52 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical workforce or unemployment-insurance admin award. A second Labor slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Oklahoma's 1601 total as a synonym for every Department of Labor bureau account.
Job-training, ui administration, and workforce-board folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns.
Agency-wide Labor versus this overlay
The agency-wide Department of Labor page aggregates 1601 without requiring OK geography. The Oklahoma federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Oklahoma place of performance. Only Department of Labor in Oklahoma applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 183 awards and $736,878,143.66.
Place of performance in Oklahoma is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list OK while later training delivery occurs in Texas or Arkansas. Labor awards coded to those places do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Oklahoma City. This packet does not split Oklahoma City from Tulsa or Norman.
Outlays are a different column
An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $736,878,143.66 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Oklahoma over-reads the field.
Award count 183 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Oklahoma–Labor overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.
Do not treat energy-corridor and tribal-nation folklore as packet NAICS
A large Labor total in Oklahoma does not mean the agency caused Oklahoma's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between energy-corridor and tribal-nation folklore and Labor awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or program quality.
Keep $736,878,143.66 labeled as agency 1601 obligations with Oklahoma place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.
Keep $736,878,143.66 labeled as a join
A clean footnote names awarding agency 1601 (Department of Labor), Oklahoma place of performance, $736,878,143.66 in obligations, and 183 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $736,878,143.66 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $4,026,656.52 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical workforce or unemployment-insurance admin award.
Department of Labor in Oklahoma, Oklahoma federal spending, Department of Labor, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $736,878,143.66 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Oklahoma City-versus-Tulsa folklore is not a metro split in this packet. State workforce agencies names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much has Department of Labor obligated in Oklahoma?
- USAspending.gov records $736,878,143.66 in obligations for awarding agency 1601 (Department of Labor) with Oklahoma place of performance, covering 183 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Labor's nationwide budget.
- Does this total include every Oklahoma workforce or unemployment-insurance admin award?
- The extract lists 183 award actions totaling $736,878,143.66. Average obligation per award is about $4,026,656.52, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical workforce or unemployment-insurance admin award. Unique state workforce agencies are not published here.
- Is this a Oklahoma City-only Labor total?
- No. $736,878,143.66 and 183 awards are statewide Oklahoma place of performance. This packet does not split Oklahoma City from Tulsa or Norman. Awards coded to Texas or Arkansas are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Oklahoma City.
- Where is the live Labor–Oklahoma table?
- Department of Labor in Oklahoma is the overlay. Oklahoma federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Labor shows agency 1601 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.