Office of Personnel Management federal obligations in District of Columbia

OPM awards tagged to the District

Office of Personnel Management as awarding agency, District of Columbia as place-of-performance: 421 records summing to $1,307,270,552.23. An Office of Personnel Management award coded outside DC is out. An award in District of Columbia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A Arlington-coded award is Virginia even if the office sits across the river.

Four hundred twenty-one awards against $1,307,270,552.23 is a mid-count OPM file, not a thin headquarters-only list of a handful of rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 421 as 421 unique unique federal employees, retirement rolls, or named buildings. The overlay Office of Personnel Management in District of Columbia is the both-keys table. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Office of Personnel Management is the agency book without a DC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Named OPM buildings are unpublished. Do not read 421 as unique employees. Place of performance DC is a geography tag, not a commuting zone. Correlation is not causation: District of Columbia did not cause $1,307,270,552.23 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 024 × DC only.

Not a retirement roll or building census

$1,307,270,552.23 does not measure unique federal employees, retirement rolls, or named buildings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 024 and a DC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 421 awards as a census of unique federal employees, retirement rolls, or named buildings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If District of Columbia federal spending or Office of Personnel Management matched $1,307,270,552.23 and 421, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland and Virginia OPM joins are other pairs, not addends.

The District is not Maryland or Virginia

Place of performance DC is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A Arlington-coded award is Virginia even if the office sits across the river. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Named OPM buildings are unpublished. Do not read 421 as unique employees. Place of performance DC is a geography tag, not a commuting zone. This packet does not split $1,307,270,552.23 by city, county, or named facility. 421 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Headquarters-adjacent dollars still record obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,307,270,552.23 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in District of Columbia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

District of Columbia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 421-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 $1,307,270,552.23.

Citing OPM in the District of Columbia

Cite USAspending.gov: Office of Personnel Management (agency 024) obligated $1,307,270,552.23 on 421 awards coded to District of Columbia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique federal employees, retirement rolls, or named buildings.

Prefer Office of Personnel Management in District of Columbia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. District of Columbia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to DC. Office of Personnel Management is the 024 parent without the DC filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,307,270,552.23.

A usable footnote names Office of Personnel Management, District of Columbia, $1,307,270,552.23, and 421. The compact headline $1.31 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $3.11 million is $1,307,270,552.23 divided by 421. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Office of Personnel Management obligated in District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $1,307,270,552.23 across 421 awards with awarding agency 024 and a District of Columbia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique federal employees, retirement rolls, or named buildings. Office of Personnel Management in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,307,270,552.23.

Is $1,307,270,552.23 a measure of unique federal employees, retirement rolls, or named buildings?

No. The packet publishes $1,307,270,552.23 and 421 awards for agency 024 inside DC coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this OPM file have 421 awards?

That is the award-record count for 024 × DC. Combined with $1,307,270,552.23, the average is about $3.11 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 421 is not unique unique federal employees, retirement rolls, or named buildings. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Office of Personnel Management in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and Office of Personnel Management are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,307,270,552.23. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.