New Jersey
Federal agencies obligated $88.2 billion for work performed in New Jersey in fiscal year 2026, ranking 22 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $88,194,846,147
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 22 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $9,282.84
- Divided by 9,500,851 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $88,194,846,147 divided by 9,500,851, 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 New Jersey 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 | Social Security Administration | $39,400,227,714 | 44.7% |
| 2 | Department of Health and Human Services | $28,079,671,731 | 31.8% |
| 3 | Department of Defense | $5,567,954,418 | 6.3% |
| 4 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $3,521,749,112 | 4.0% |
| 5 | Department of Agriculture | $2,936,841,722 | 3.3% |
| 6 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $2,198,966,069 | 2.5% |
| 7 | Department of Transportation | $2,067,955,818 | 2.3% |
| 8 | Department of Education | $1,969,349,266 | 2.2% |
| 9 | Department of Homeland Security | $1,083,063,164 | 1.2% |
| 10 | Railroad Retirement Board | $227,884,701 | 0.3% |
| 11 | Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | $207,599,488 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Department of Energy | $203,533,166 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Department of Labor | $145,646,214 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Department of Justice | $112,341,177 | 0.1% |
| 15 | General Services Administration | $109,665,055 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 46 agencies with obligations here. New Jersey accounts for 1.9% 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