South Carolina
Federal agencies obligated $122.8 billion for work performed in South Carolina in fiscal year 2026, ranking 11 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $122,838,496,206
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 11 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $22,420.57
- Divided by 5,478,831 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $122,838,496,206 divided by 5,478,831, 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 South Carolina 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 | $75,833,367,951 | 61.7% |
| 2 | Social Security Administration | $27,333,565,422 | 22.3% |
| 3 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $5,864,178,078 | 4.8% |
| 4 | Department of Energy | $4,908,723,625 | 4.0% |
| 5 | Department of Defense | $2,527,190,965 | 2.1% |
| 6 | Department of Agriculture | $1,894,876,636 | 1.5% |
| 7 | Department of Homeland Security | $1,197,456,897 | 1.0% |
| 8 | Department of Education | $1,124,253,879 | 0.9% |
| 9 | Department of Transportation | $953,932,042 | 0.8% |
| 10 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $437,445,182 | 0.4% |
| 11 | Railroad Retirement Board | $180,847,143 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Federal Communications Commission | $152,271,076 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Environmental Protection Agency | $107,186,436 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Department of State | $92,399,769 | 0.1% |
| 15 | National Science Foundation | $69,495,236 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 35 agencies with obligations here. South Carolina accounts for 2.6% 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
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