Nebraska
Federal agencies obligated $25.0 billion for work performed in Nebraska in fiscal year 2026, ranking 40 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $24,956,547,723
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 40 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $12,444.27
- Divided by 2,005,465 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $24,956,547,723 divided by 2,005,465, the 2024 resident population estimate from U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA). It is dollars of federally obligated work recorded in Nebraska per resident. It is not federal money received by residents, and it is not a payment anyone receives.
Largest agencies
| Rank | Agency | Obligations | Share of state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Health and Human Services | $11,311,658,779 | 45.3% |
| 2 | Social Security Administration | $7,927,035,811 | 31.8% |
| 3 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $1,402,758,290 | 5.6% |
| 4 | Department of Agriculture | $1,390,799,940 | 5.6% |
| 5 | Department of Education | $753,814,955 | 3.0% |
| 6 | Department of Transportation | $584,309,197 | 2.3% |
| 7 | Department of Defense | $448,826,579 | 1.8% |
| 8 | Railroad Retirement Board | $394,617,341 | 1.6% |
| 9 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $201,369,256 | 0.8% |
| 10 | General Services Administration | $171,204,019 | 0.7% |
| 11 | Department of Homeland Security | $149,913,349 | 0.6% |
| 12 | Environmental Protection Agency | $53,348,588 | 0.2% |
| 13 | National Science Foundation | $51,218,178 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Department of the Interior | $43,445,435 | 0.2% |
| 15 | Department of Justice | $35,860,508 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 37 agencies with obligations here. Nebraska accounts for 0.5% of the $4,725,719,515,020 that carries a place-of-performance state.
What this page cannot show
- Place of performance is the location the recipient reported. A contract recorded here may be performed, subcontracted, or spent elsewhere.
- These are obligations recorded in the period, not outlays and not money received by residents or by the state government.
- A per-resident figure divides work performed in a state by the people who live there. The two are not the same population, and a state with a large federal installation or contractor will rank high without its residents receiving that money.
Related
Nearby in the ranking
Largest agencies here
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved 2026-09-18apps/web/queries/spending/states_by_federal_awards.sql, apps/web/queries/spending/state_agencies.sql
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA) (population denominator) — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work, public domaintransforms/seeds/census_state_population.csv
Data retrieved