Engineering Services federal obligations in Pennsylvania

Engineering services and Pennsylvania as a pair

Engineering Services as the NAICS industry, Pennsylvania as place of performance: 1,901 records summing to $575,931,065.01. An award in this industry coded outside PA is out. An award in Pennsylvania from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. Pennsylvania (PA) excludes New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, and Delaware. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or a named yard.

1,901 awards is a mid-count industry cell. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows without each one being a new establishment. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,901 as 1,901 unique firms. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for engineering services in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 541330 is the industry book without a PA filter. Pennsylvania industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $302,962 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Pennsylvania did not “cause” $575,931,065.01 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 541330 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 541330 × PA only.

Engineering services, not construction put in place

$575,931,065.01 does not measure engineers employed, drawings delivered, or construction put in place. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 541330 covers engineering services: professional engineering work as coded on the award. It is not construction (a different NAICS family) and not a census of licensed engineers. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 541330 and a PA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,901 awards as a census of engineers employed. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Pennsylvania federal spending or the national NAICS 541330 table matched $575,931,065.01 and 1,901, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

Pennsylvania statewide, not a local map

Place of performance PA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Pennsylvania (PA) excludes New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, and Delaware. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Pennsylvania. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains PA. Contractor address is not this filter.

Pennsylvania place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or a named yard. This packet does not split $575,931,065.01 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 1,901 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $575,931,065.01 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Pennsylvania confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Pennsylvania’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,901-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $575,931,065.01. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Engineering services in Pennsylvania

Cite USAspending.gov: Engineering Services (NAICS 541330) obligated $575,931,065.01 on 1,901 awards coded to Pennsylvania. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as engineers employed, drawings delivered, or construction put in place.

Prefer the ties page for engineering services in Pennsylvania if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Pennsylvania federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to PA. NAICS 541330 is the industry parent without the PA filter. Pennsylvania industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $575,931,065.01.

A usable footnote names Engineering Services, Pennsylvania, NAICS 541330, $575,931,065.01, and 1,901. The compact headline $576M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $302,962 is $575,931,065.01 divided by 1,901. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for engineering services in Pennsylvania?

USAspending.gov records $575,931,065.01 across 1,901 awards with NAICS 541330 and a Pennsylvania place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of engineers employed. Keep both keys when quoting $575,931,065.01.

Does this total count engineers or construction completed?

No. The packet publishes $575,931,065.01 and 1,901 awards for NAICS 541330 inside PA coding. Engineers employed, drawings delivered, or construction put in place are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Pennsylvania file have 1,901 awards?

That is the award-record count for 541330 × PA. Combined with $575,931,065.01, the average is about $302,962. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,901 is not unique engineers employed. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

Pennsylvania federal spending and NAICS 541330 are the parents, not addends. Pennsylvania industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $575,931,065.01. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.