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Department of Labor

Award obligations from USAspending, with detail archived for FFY 2024 · 12 sub-agencies.

Labor oversees employment standards, worker protection, and workforce programs, including unemployment-insurance administration support. Award figures on The Ledger come from archived USAspending awarding-agency rollups (obligations). That is not the same as every dollar the agency outlays.

Obligations · FFY 2024

$10.6B

Awarding agency DOL

Transactions

14,742

Award transactions in FFY 2024

Share of awards

0.21%

Of archived awarding-agency obligations in FFY 2024

MTS outlays · FFY 2025

$50.4B

Matched Monthly Treasury Statement line

Obligations by year

Award obligations by fiscal year for Department of Labor
Fiscal yearObligations
FFY 2024$10.6B
FFY 2023$11.7B
FFY 2022$11.5B
FFY 2021$16.9B
FFY 2018$10.0B
FFY 2017$10.4B
FFY 2016$9.7B

Award categoriesFFY 2024

Obligations by award category for Department of Labor
CategoryAmount
Grants$8.4B
Contracts$2.2B
Other$51.2M
IDVs$1.0K

Top sub-agenciesFFY 2024

Top sub-agencies by obligations for Department of Labor
Sub-agencyCodeObligationsTransactions
Employment and Training AdministrationETA$7.8B5,693
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management—$2.3B5,858
Veterans Employment and Training ServicesVETS$223.0M673
Occupational Safety and Health AdministrationOSHA$184.5M1,137
Bureau of Labor StatisticsBLS$80.9M990
President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped—$26.4M22
Mine Safety and Health AdministrationMSHA$11.0M166
Office of Inspector GeneralOIG$9.8M176
Office of Job Corps—−$6.6M27

Matched Treasury outlays

Monthly Treasury Statement net outlays for Department of Labor
Fiscal yearNet outlays
FFY 2025$50.4B
FFY 2024$65.7B
FFY 2023$87.5B
FFY 2022$51.7B
FFY 2021$404.8B
FFY 2018$39.6B
FFY 2017$40.1B
FFY 2016$41.4B

Sources

  • Obligations are legal commitments, not the same as Treasury outlays. See award obligations and outlays.
  • Official websiteUSAspending agency pageBudget justificationMethodologyAll awarding agencies