In its own words: 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.
The Treasury’s books put its net outlays at $50,383,064,841. Its own accounts, as it reported them to USAspending, show $70,787,234,430 in gross outlays: the difference is what its programs took back in and what it paid to other federal accounts, lines the Treasury’s breakdown below lists and subtracts.
Over time
Net outlays in each fiscal year, from the Treasury's September statements.
Net outlays by bureau and account, the same books as the total above. Open a line to see what is inside it. Lines in italics are subtracted: money the public paid back, and payments between federal accounts.
Employment and Training Administration$47.5B94.3%
Training and Employment Services$1.80B3.8%
Office of Job Corps$1.85B3.9%
Community Service Employment for Older Americans$337M0.7%
Federal Unemployment Benefits and Allowances$35M0.1%
Federal Additional Unemployment Compensation Program-Recovery Act-$68M
State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations$320M0.7%
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs$4.97B9.9%
Special Benefits$1.01B20.4%
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund$3.08B62.0%
Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners$35M0.7%
Black Lung Disability Trust Fund$482M9.7%
Other$359M7.2%
Wage and Hour Division$314M0.6%
Occupational Safety and Health Administration$628M1.2%
Mine Safety and Health Administration$385M0.8%
Bureau of Labor Statistics$692M1.4%
Departmental Management$609M1.2%
Other$403M0.8%
Proprietary Receipts from the PublicMoney the public paid back to these accounts, subtracted from the total-$794M
Intrabudgetary TransactionsPayments between federal accounts, subtracted so nothing is counted twice-$397M
Its federal accounts
Each federal account is one pot of money Congress appropriates, and these are the 37 this agency paid out of, by gross outlays. Each opens on USAspending.gov, which lists its programs and awards.
Gross outlays by object class, grouped: what each dollar bought. $4.80B moved from its accounts to other federal accounts is left out; it is counted where it is finally paid.
Benefits paid to people68.4%$45,143,841,611
Grants and subsidies20.1%$13,255,739,091
Contracts, goods and services6.1%$4,015,899,961
Pay and benefits of federal staff4.0%$2,606,951,261
$11.5B in contracts, grants, loans and direct payments committed in the year. Payments to individuals are published only as totals, so they have a place but no recipient.
Net outlays and the bureau breakdown are the Monthly Treasury Statement’s for September 2025, table 5. Everything else is what Department of Labor reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal year 2025: its accounts, object classes and functions as gross outlays and obligations, and its contracts, grants, loans and direct payments as award obligations, by the place of performance. Awards are counted under the agency that made them.