Pennsylvania
Federal agencies obligated $254.5 billion for work performed in Pennsylvania in fiscal year 2026, ranking 4 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $254,502,858,385
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 4 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $19,459.26
- Divided by 13,078,751 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $254,502,858,385 divided by 13,078,751, 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 Pennsylvania 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 | $146,428,371,641 | 57.5% |
| 2 | Social Security Administration | $63,341,168,583 | 24.9% |
| 3 | Department of Defense | $19,007,866,380 | 7.5% |
| 4 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $6,252,909,916 | 2.5% |
| 5 | Department of Agriculture | $5,381,550,753 | 2.1% |
| 6 | Department of Transportation | $4,244,219,067 | 1.7% |
| 7 | Department of Education | $2,537,121,715 | 1.0% |
| 8 | Department of Energy | $2,089,486,692 | 0.8% |
| 9 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $2,001,679,347 | 0.8% |
| 10 | Department of Homeland Security | $780,155,665 | 0.3% |
| 11 | Railroad Retirement Board | $591,766,756 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Department of the Interior | $322,671,219 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Environmental Protection Agency | $288,293,827 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Department of Commerce | $230,908,931 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Department of Labor | $204,356,920 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 46 agencies with obligations here. Pennsylvania accounts for 5.4% 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
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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
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