Department

Dept of Labor

$1.1B
total checkbook spend · FY18–present
9Fiscal years
12Programs
15+Top vendors
+19% in FY25 vs FY24

Budget vs. actual

Appropriated budget (state budget dataset, converted from thousands) against actual checkbook payments. Differences reflect fund types, timing, and spending outside the checkbook — a lead, not a verdict.

Fiscal yearBudgetedCheckbook actualActual / budget
FY18 $23,842,200 $72,301,114 303%
FY19 $24,087,100 $70,541,459 293%
FY20 $26,897,600 $73,211,751 272%
FY21 $26,987,800 $311,636,943 1155%
FY22 $27,729,800 $124,648,467 450%
FY23 $28,123,400 $92,247,716 328%
FY24 $29,454,200 $103,228,495 350%
FY25 $30,580,700 $123,220,985 403%
FY26 $41,189,500 $123,807,091 301%

Budget source: “Labor” in the appropriated budgets dataset. Open source dataset ↗

Money anatomy

From 14,371,805 expenditure line items — how this department's spending breaks down by fund and account.

By fund

Federal Funds (Federal)
$343.1M
General Fund (Special)
$136.0M
General Fund (General)
$85.2M
Federal Funds (General)
$2.6M
Federal Funds (Special)
$266K

Top spending accounts

Other Professional Service
$132.5M
Salaries/Wages-Employees
$98.9M
Training
$62.9M
Temporary Employment Service
$31.5M
Consultants
$27.0M
Health Ins/Employers' Sh
$26.1M
Pensions/Employer'S Share
$22.8M
Buildings - Office Space
$22.2M
Permit/Certs/Trans/Misfee/Lics
$20.6M
Computer Services
$17.0M
Computer Equipment/Software
$10.5M
Indirect Cost
$10.3M

Source: checkbook expenditure details. Open source dataset ↗

Programs

ProgramTotalVendorsYears
Unemployment Insurance $453,436,540 390 FY18–FY26
Employment & Training Services $221,154,351 741 FY18–FY26
Vocational Rehabilitation Svcs $147,089,964 2,115 FY18–FY26
Office of Workers'Compensation $82,381,462 192 FY18–FY26
Disability Determination Svcs. $52,823,633 2,074 FY18–FY26
Office of the Secretary $50,108,897 153 FY18–FY26
Administrative Support $38,093,363 187 FY18–FY26
Off of Labor Law Enforcement $24,053,541 124 FY18–FY26
Occupational & Labor Market $8,472,229 54 FY18–FY26
Antidiscrimination $7,750,230 85 FY18–FY26
Osha/Bls $6,384,848 64 FY18–FY26
Paid Family Medical Leave $3,094,962 36 FY26–FY26

Spending by fiscal year

Fiscal yearTotalPaymentsVendors
FY18 $72,301,114 63,9841,993
FY19 $70,541,459 58,9531,766
FY20 $73,211,751 56,4551,697
FY21 $311,636,943 47,9921,430
FY22 $124,648,467 50,0961,420
FY23 $92,247,716 57,1411,528
FY24 $103,228,495 54,3731,629
FY25 $123,220,985 58,8781,568
FY26 $123,807,091 50,2711,305