Cabinet department
Department of Labor (DOL)
$105.3 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Mission
- To foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.
- Sub-agencies
- 9 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.dol.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 1601
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves DOL.
Direct payments
$999.3M
<1%
Grants
$84.9B
81%
Contracts
$18.3B
17%
By sub-agency
The bureaus and offices inside DOL, by dollars committed.
Where the money goes
Top destinations of DOL's committed dollars. Direct payments to individuals (Medicare, Social Security, …) are aggregated by the government, so they show as the federal program rather than a named recipient.
What they buy
Top products and services DOL buys under contract, by dollars committed.
Education/Training- Vocational/Technical
$6.2B
Operation of Other Educational Buildings
$4.0B
Support- Professional: Other
$1.2B
Support- Professional: Program Management/Support
$656.7M
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
$610.0M
It and Telecom- Facility Operation and Maintenance
$500.2M
It and Telecom- Integrated Hardware/Software/Services Solutions, Predominantly Services
$390.9M
It and Telecom- Other It and Telecommunications
$318.7M
Support- Management: Data Collection
$279.1M
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Software as a Service
$250.7M
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by DOL.
Competition
How competitively DOL's contract dollars were awarded. 'Not available' is legitimate sole-source (a single source — utilities, proprietary parts); 'not competed' is the flag worth a second look.
Competed
$17.1B
93%
Not competed
$701.1M
4%
Not available for competition
$494.1M
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars DOL reserved before bidding for a specific kind of firm — small business, 8(a), service-disabled-veteran, women-owned, HUBZone — versus full and open competition.
Small business
$3.4B
19%
8(a)
$802.0M
4%
Service-disabled veteran
$159.1M
<1%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where DOL's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
California
$12.6B
District of Columbia
$6.9B
By fiscal year
Committed dollars grew 15% across FY2018–FY2025. DOL's committed dollars per fiscal year, FY2018–FY2026.
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How to read these numbers
- Committed, not paid
Every figure is money this agency committed — legally promised by signing a contract or awarding a grant — counted in the year each action happened, not cash out the door.
- From FY2018 on
Agency pages start at fiscal year 2018, the first year of complete federal-assistance reporting. Earlier years aren't shown rather than shown wrong.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- Benefits show as programs
Medicare, Social Security, and other direct payments to individuals are aggregated by the government, so under Where the money goes they appear as the program, not a named recipient.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments
