Washington
Federal agencies obligated $90.4 billion for work performed in Washington in fiscal year 2026, ranking 21 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $90,380,814,968
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 21 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $11,356.97
- Divided by 7,958,180 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $90,380,814,968 divided by 7,958,180, 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 Washington 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 | $32,816,900,266 | 36.3% |
| 2 | Department of Health and Human Services | $24,226,376,487 | 26.8% |
| 3 | Department of Defense | $12,444,376,217 | 13.8% |
| 4 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $5,618,078,378 | 6.2% |
| 5 | Department of Energy | $4,204,336,460 | 4.7% |
| 6 | Department of Agriculture | $3,303,849,177 | 3.7% |
| 7 | Department of Transportation | $1,746,475,300 | 1.9% |
| 8 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1,635,441,766 | 1.8% |
| 9 | Department of Education | $1,429,933,306 | 1.6% |
| 10 | Department of Homeland Security | $1,154,973,478 | 1.3% |
| 11 | Department of the Interior | $577,412,046 | 0.6% |
| 12 | Railroad Retirement Board | $213,124,996 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Department of Commerce | $200,037,470 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Environmental Protection Agency | $193,926,153 | 0.2% |
| 15 | National Science Foundation | $136,924,665 | 0.2% |
The 15 largest of 45 agencies with obligations here. Washington 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
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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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