Public Relations Agencies federal obligations in FY2026

Reading NAICS 541820 inside FY2026

NAICS 541820 and fiscal year 2026 meet here. $79,550,591.71 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on the yearlyTrend row that carries both tags. It is not Public Relations Agencies's nationwide all-year total of $730,140,732.36, not every federal dollar coded to FY2026, and not an outlay register. The packet does not split media relations from other PR lines, or contract from assistance. 521 is an industry-extract action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows across years. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a campaign catalog, a named-agency roster, or a clip-count log.

Open /industries/541820/ (NAICS 541820) for the industry table without this FY2026 filter, /fiscal-years/2026/ (FY2026 federal spending) for the year table without this NAICS filter, /industries/ (All industries) for every industry, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $79,550,591.71. Public-relations agencies (541820) are not marketing consulting (541613). Keep 541820 on FY2026.

This page reports public relations agencies activity USAspending tagged to FY2026. The headline $79,550,591.71 sits beside an industry-wide obligation total of $730,140,732.36; the 10.9% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of fiscal years as winners or losers. Obligations are not outlays. Campaign titles and clip counts are unpublished. Quote 541820 and FY2026 together.

Industry 541820 without inventing a product pie

USAspending labels NAICS 541820 as Public Relations Agencies. That code produced $79,550,591.71 when crossed with fiscal year 2026. The industry-wide 541820 hub does not require a FY2026 filter. The year hub does not require Public Relations Agencies. Only this tie applies both filters. The packet does not split media relations from other PR lines, or contract from assistance. Media-relations folklore is not a packet fact. This page names no agencies.

Why this page will not divide $79,550,591.71 by 521

521 is the Public Relations Agencies award-record count published with the industry extract, not a count of FY2026 instruments. Dividing $79,550,591.71 by 521 would mix a one-year dollar total with a multi-year row count, so this page does not publish that ratio as a typical invoice. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications and multi-year vehicles can add lines without adding vendors. 521 is the 541820 extract award-record count across years, not a FY2026 campaign census. FY2026 figures can be incomplete for the current year, so even the dollar cell may still move.

A compact parent file makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A thin parent file makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. 10.9% of $730,140,732.36 is the year share on this packet, not a performance score.

What the dollar figure is allowed to mean

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $79,550,591.71 is that kind of sum for Public Relations Agencies in FY2026. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same NAICS rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $79,550,591.71 as given.

Treat 521 as award records on the industry extract, not unique vendors and not a FY2026 headcount. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. FEC contribution tables do not fund these awards. Campaign titles and clip counts are unpublished. Quote 541820 and FY2026 together.

Parents of this tie: industry, year, index

Cite USAspending.gov: Public Relations Agencies (NAICS 541820) obligated $79,550,591.71 in FY2026. Name Public Relations Agencies and FY2026 together. Keep the obligation word. If /industries/541820/ or /fiscal-years/2026/ has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a campaign catalog, a named-agency roster, or a clip-count log. 10.9% of $730,140,732.36 is the industry share on this packet, not a budget score. /industries/ lists other industries; /ties/ indexes other pairs.

Keep Public Relations Agencies, FY2026, $79,550,591.71, and the 521-record industry extract together without mixing clocks. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a year with Public Relations Agencies does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending yearlyTrend join. Public-relations agencies (541820) are not marketing consulting (541613). Keep 541820 on FY2026.

Reading a compact Public Relations Agencies parent beside FY2026

521 is the 541820 extract award-record count across years, not a FY2026 campaign census. Public-relations agencies (541820) are not marketing consulting (541613). Keep 541820 on FY2026. A reader who quotes 521 as unique companies in FY2026 has left the packet. A reader who treats 10.9% as a hardship or success ranking has added a score the table does not carry. Prefer /industries/541820/ and /fiscal-years/2026/ if the live tables moved. Campaign titles and clip counts are unpublished. Quote 541820 and FY2026 together.

This snapshot holds $79,550,591.71 on the yearlyTrend row and 521 on the industry extract. /ties/ is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation. A reader who only quotes $79,550,591.71 without FY2026 and NAICS 541820 has dropped a join side.

Questions

How much Public Relations Agencies spending is obligated in FY2026?

USAspending.gov lists $79,550,591.71 in Public Relations Agencies (NAICS 541820) obligations for FY2026. That yearlyTrend amount is 10.9% of the industry's $730,140,732.36 extract-wide total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not every federal dollar in FY2026. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Is $79,550,591.71 the entire Public Relations Agencies USAspending total?

No. NAICS 541820's extract-wide total is $730,140,732.36. FY2026 is 10.9% of that book. Other fiscal-year rows for the same industry are separate cells. Do not add /industries/541820/ into this join. 521 award records stay on the industry extract, not on this yearlyTrend row.

Is $79,550,591.71 cash already paid in FY2026?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $79,550,591.71 as checks already cleared in FY2026 confuses those terms. Prefer the live industry and year hubs if the tables moved.

Do FEC donations fund these Public Relations Agencies awards in FY2026?

No. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. Sharing a calendar year does not mean donations funded $79,550,591.71 in FY2026. This page reports USAspending.gov NAICS 541820 crossed with fiscal year 2026. It does not report campaign finance. USAspending.gov remains the source for NAICS 541820 in FY2026.