Department

Dept of Transportation

$9.0B
total checkbook spend · FY18–present
9Fiscal years
14Programs
15+Top vendors

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 $344,963,900 $848,348,476 246%
FY19 $352,405,500 $897,590,878 255%
FY20 $370,477,300 $955,050,641 258%
FY21 $336,290,800 $995,348,460 296%
FY22 $347,196,100 $1,007,562,012 290%
FY23 $374,534,000 $1,040,786,823 278%
FY24 $397,356,800 $1,082,412,613 272%
FY25 $461,771,000 $1,117,471,606 242%
FY26 $469,774,700 $1,053,325,854 224%

Budget source: “Transportation” 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

Deldot Capital (Capital)
$1.7B
Federal Deldot Capital (Capital)
$1.6B
Deldot Operational (Special)
$1.5B
Deldot General Fund (Special)
$231.9M
Deldot Federal Funds (Federal)
$151.9M
Deldot Capital (Special)
$28.5M
General Fund (General)
$25.7M
Other Expendable Trust (Special)
$10.9M
Federal Funds (Federal)
$991K
Deldot Operational (General)
$951K

Top spending accounts

Hgwy/Bridge Reconstr
$1.4B
Consultants
$715.6M
Subsidies
$500.7M
Salaries/Wages-Employees
$406.3M
Transfer Out
$397.5M
Other Professional Service
$241.9M
Health Ins/Employers' Sh
$117.4M
Hgwys & Bridges-Maint Only
$108.7M
Pensions/Employer'S Share
$102.9M
Highway/Bridge Constr
$96.2M
Real Est Purch-Rt of Way
$83.4M
Toll Fees
$81.3M

Source: checkbook expenditure details. Open source dataset ↗

Programs

ProgramTotalVendorsYears
Capital Project Cost Center $6,105,760,434 2,098 FY18–FY26
Del Transportation Authority $997,523,154 2 FY18–FY26
Maintenance Districts $708,700,759 1,809 FY18–FY26
Administration $275,283,861 8,020 FY18–FY26
Toll Administration $216,094,850 526 FY18–FY26
Finance $201,426,791 499 FY18–FY26
Technology and Innovation $156,502,724 173 FY18–FY26
Traffic $140,802,681 270 FY18–FY26
Planning $63,535,285 152 FY18–FY26
Engineering Support $61,598,120 333 FY18–FY26
Office of the Secretary $31,379,837 85 FY18–FY26
US 301 Maintenance Operations $23,735,286 63 FY19–FY26
Human Resources $9,005,122 206 FY18–FY26
Community Relations $6,548,459 41 FY18–FY26

Spending by fiscal year

Fiscal yearTotalPaymentsVendors
FY18 $848,348,476 86,5363,138
FY19 $897,590,878 85,6272,561
FY20 $955,050,641 80,1272,309
FY21 $995,348,460 77,3382,145
FY22 $1,007,562,012 78,0332,757
FY23 $1,040,786,823 78,8602,360
FY24 $1,082,412,613 81,7783,036
FY25 $1,117,471,606 77,5972,268
FY26 $1,053,325,854 80,7522,558