Department of Labor federal obligations in Pennsylvania

Labor and Pennsylvania as an accounting intersection

Two filters meet on this page. One is the awarding agency: Department of Labor, code 1601. The other is geography: awards whose place of performance is Pennsylvania. The product is $2,461,577,684.91 and 275 award records. A Labor award coded to Ohio is not in this total. A Pennsylvania award from another agency is not in this total.

The join is not a finding that Pennsylvania’s industrial mix caused Labor’s book, or that Labor spending caused Pennsylvania employment outcomes. Correlation of an agency code with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a state workforce agency, a training contractor, or an enforcement office. Headquarters elsewhere can still post Pennsylvania-coded rows.

BLS survey tables, UI claims, and OSHA inspection counts are other publications. Mixing any of them with $2,461,577,684.91 leaves the USAspending.gov award series. This packet does not split Unemployment Insurance, Job Corps, or wage-and-hour accounts inside the 275 rows.

Two hundred seventy-five awards under $2.46 billion

Two hundred seventy-five awards carrying $2,461,577,684.91 is a short tape relative to the dollars. The implied mean is about $8,951,192 per award from those two packet facts. That quotient is not a typical training grant and not a median. Formula or insurance-style vehicles can dominate a short list.

Volume and dollars are different columns. Pennsylvania’s Labor cell is a high-dollar, low-row join. Cite both 275 and $2,461,577,684.91. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a worker-level payment.

Pennsylvania’s workforce system is large, but this packet does not locate the 275 awards by county or by union status. A Harrisburg pass-through can carry a Pennsylvania tag while services occur in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, or rural counties. The implied mean near $8,951,192 is a file-level ratio. It is not evidence that a typical Pennsylvania worker received that amount. Later ingests can revise $2,461,577,684.91 and 275; the overlay is the live table.

Statewide Pennsylvania versus Labor nationwide

Pennsylvania’s all-agency hub stacks every awarding agency with performance coded to the Commonwealth. $2,461,577,684.91 is only Labor. Labor’s national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

Harrisburg budget documents answer a different question. They are not the source of the 275 federal award records. If a chart mixes the General Fund with this Labor cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

Commitments, not paychecks already issued

An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $2,461,577,684.91 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for benefits or wages already paid in Pennsylvania will misstate timing. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.

Multi-year workforce vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts. Cite the pair as agency 1601 × Pennsylvania, $2,461,577,684.91, 275 awards, obligations only.

Where to open the live tables

The Pennsylvania × Labor overlay holds the structured rows behind the join. The Pennsylvania state page and the Labor agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs on the same obligation basis.

Those views do not add a program-code mix or a unique-grantee count this packet omits. They also do not convert $2,461,577,684.91 into outlays.

How to cite Labor in Pennsylvania

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Labor (awarding agency 1601) obligated $2,461,577,684.91 on 275 awards coded to Pennsylvania. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Pennsylvania and call the figure a national Labor total. Do not drop Labor and call it Pennsylvania’s entire federal book.

Later ingests can move dollars and the 275-award count. This prose is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live cell. The implied mean near $8,951,192 remains a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical grant.

Questions

How much has the Department of Labor obligated in Pennsylvania?

USAspending.gov shows $2,461,577,684.91 in Labor obligations coded to Pennsylvania across 275 awards. Awarding-agency 1601 and Pennsylvania place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Why are there only 275 Labor awards in Pennsylvania?

The extract counts 275 award records. Large formula or insurance-style vehicles can produce a short tape with a high implied mean—about $8,951,192 from $2,461,577,684.91 divided by 275. Program splits are not in this packet.

Is this Pennsylvania’s unemployment-insurance spending?

The packet does not isolate Unemployment Insurance from other Labor accounts. $2,461,577,684.91 is the full agency 1601 × Pennsylvania cell. UI claims series are a different product.

Are Labor obligations in Pennsylvania the same as outlays?

No. $2,461,577,684.91 is an obligation sum on 275 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.