USAspending.gov, agency code 015 · Award obligations of Department of Justice, monthly, millions of dollars
How much money did the Department of Justice commit to awards each month?
The money committed to awards by the Department of Justice was $1,006.0 million in the month ended , up 11.1% from a year earlier.
Federal award obligations of the Department of Justice, not seasonally adjusted, each month
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Federal award obligations of the Department of Justice, change from a year earlier, each month (ours)
Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to .
Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .
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| Measure | Latest | The month before | A year earlier | Five years earlier | Ten years earlier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | |||||
| Federal award obligations of the Department of Justice | $1,006.0 million | $900.3 million | $905.1 million | $540.2 million | $558.7 million |
| Change over a year | +11.1% | +13.4% | +57.9% | −9.2% | −43.3% |
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Observed .
Right now
The money committed to awards by the Department of Justice was $1,006.0 million in July 2026, the highest since April 2026.
Over a year it is up 11.1% (ours).
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| Period | Then | Change |
|---|---|---|
| One month | $900.3 million in | +11.7% |
| Three months | $1,317.5 million in | −23.6% |
| Twelve months | $905.1 million in | +11.1% |
| Five years | $540.2 million in | +86.2% |
| Ten years | $558.7 million in | +80.1% |
In historyOurs
The money committed to awards by the Department of Justice of $1,006.0 million in was higher than in 169 of the 225 other months since , the same in 0 and lower in 56.
Highest since : $5,268.0 million in . Lowest since : $167.5 million in .
AverageOurs
Average since : $995.53 million (ours, a plain mean of the 226 months).
ComparedOurs
Over a year the money committed to awards by the Department of Justice is up 11.1%, which ranks 2 of the 8 rows of the table, where 1 is the largest change.
The table sets the money committed to awards by the Department of Justice beside the agencies in its group on the federal award obligations by agency page, by the change over a year in each one's newest month.
Understanding the money committed to awards by the Department of Justice
Where it stands today
The money committed to awards by the Department of Justice was $1,006.0 million in July 2026.
What does the money committed to awards by the Department of Justice measure?
This is the money the Department of Justice committed to awards each month: the contracts, grants, loans, direct payments and other awards it signed or approved. The Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service publishes the figures on USAspending.gov, by the awarding agency and by the month of the award action. USAspending calls the amounts obligations.
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What 500metrics adds: the change over one month, three months, a year and five years, the highest and lowest value since the series begins, how the change over a year ranks among the agencies in its group on the federal award obligations by agency page, and the history in one chart and one file.
The numbers behind the chart
What was the money committed to awards by the Department of Justice in each month?The last ten years, 120 months, newest first; the chart and the file have every month since Oct 2007
| Month | Value | Change over a year |
|---|---|---|
| $1,006.0 million | +11.1% | |
| $900.3 million | +13.4% | |
| $820.9 million | −13.1% | |
| $1,317.5 million | +71.4% | |
| $1,376.2 million | +356.2% | |
| $525.9 million | +63.8% | |
| $449.0 million | −44.1% | |
| $1,255.9 million | +93.1% | |
| $243.2 million | −79.7% | |
| $642.2 million | +4.9% | |
| $3,320.8 million | −35.4% | |
| $828.3 million | −36.6% | |
| $905.1 million | +57.9% | |
| $793.7 million | −11.3% | |
| $944.1 million | −47.8% | |
| $768.7 million | −14.8% | |
| $301.6 million | −37.2% | |
| $321.1 million | −34.8% | |
| $804.0 million | +83.8% | |
| $650.3 million | +7.8% | |
| $1,199.2 million | +15.1% | |
| $612.1 million | +9.8% | |
| $5,138.3 million | +5.4% | |
| $1,307.0 million | −60.5% |
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| Month | Value | Change over a year |
|---|---|---|
| $573.0 million | +2.1% | |
| $895.0 million | +43.5% | |
| $1,807.7 million | +138.9% | |
| $902.3 million | +23.1% | |
| $480.3 million | −68.4% | |
| $492.7 million | −39.8% | |
| $437.5 million | +21.1% | |
| $603.2 million | +33.4% | |
| $1,041.7 million | −13.4% | |
| $557.4 million | −34.4% | |
| $4,876.9 million | +19.4% | |
| $3,309.3 million | +29.7% | |
| $561.4 million | −36.8% | |
| $623.9 million | −40.9% | |
| $756.7 million | −18.5% | |
| $733.1 million | −36.0% | |
| $1,518.3 million | +150.1% | |
| $818.5 million | +132.8% | |
| $361.2 million | −30.4% | |
| $452.2 million | −72.0% | |
| $1,202.5 million | +22.3% | |
| $849.9 million | +8.1% | |
| $4,085.9 million | +15.2% | |
| $2,550.7 million | +226.2% | |
| $888.0 million | +64.4% | |
| $1,056.0 million | +41.7% | |
| $928.8 million | +41.2% | |
| $1,145.2 million | +62.1% | |
| $606.9 million | −16.4% | |
| $351.5 million | −67.5% | |
| $519.2 million | −13.9% | |
| $1,613.2 million | +221.9% | |
| $983.6 million | +18.6% | |
| $786.0 million | −57.4% | |
| $3,546.4 million | +81.0% | |
| $781.9 million | −76.2% | |
| $540.2 million | −9.2% | |
| $745.1 million | −29.8% | |
| $657.9 million | −26.8% | |
| $706.3 million | −31.7% | |
| $726.2 million | −11.6% | |
| $1,081.0 million | +45.6% | |
| $603.1 million | +1.8% | |
| $501.1 million | −5.6% | |
| $829.5 million | +32.0% | |
| $1,845.5 million | +71.5% | |
| $1,959.5 million | −51.4% | |
| $3,288.7 million | +13.7% | |
| $594.9 million | −20.0% | |
| $1,061.9 million | +82.9% | |
| $898.4 million | −4.4% | |
| $1,034.6 million | +31.4% | |
| $821.8 million | −7.1% | |
| $742.6 million | +28.2% | |
| $592.4 million | +253.7% | |
| $530.8 million | +95.6% | |
| $628.4 million | +29.6% | |
| $1,076.3 million | +5.9% | |
| $4,028.9 million | +7.2% | |
| $2,891.8 million | −34.4% | |
| $743.3 million | +25.5% | |
| $580.6 million | −17.8% | |
| $940.0 million | +7.0% | |
| $787.2 million | −5.4% | |
| $884.6 million | +71.9% | |
| $579.3 million | +33.1% | |
| $167.5 million | −68.5% | |
| $271.3 million | −43.9% | |
| $484.7 million | +8.3% | |
| $1,016.4 million | +22.1% | |
| $3,757.7 million | −28.7% | |
| $4,411.0 million | +526.2% | |
| $592.4 million | −16.5% | |
| $705.9 million | −10.2% | |
| $878.8 million | +33.0% | |
| $831.9 million | +149.5% | |
| $514.5 million | −14.9% | |
| $435.3 million | +9.6% | |
| $532.0 million | +55.1% | |
| $483.4 million | −31.2% | |
| $447.4 million | +47.0% | |
| $832.4 million | −4.9% | |
| $5,268.0 million | +5.3% | |
| $704.5 million | −36.5% | |
| $709.2 million | +26.9% | |
| $786.4 million | +36.4% | |
| $660.5 million | +62.5% | |
| $333.4 million | −55.3% | |
| $604.5 million | −4.2% | |
| $397.0 million | −10.6% | |
| $343.0 million | −49.3% | |
| $702.8 million | +38.8% | |
| $304.3 million | +10.4% | |
| $875.5 million | −7.5% | |
| $5,004.8 million | +34.8% | |
| $1,108.7 million | −36.8% |
How does it compare with the agencies in its group on the federal award obligations by agency page?Ranked by the change over a year
| Series | Month | Value | Change over a year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Labor | $3,592.9 million | +114.6% | 1 | |
| Department of Justice (this page) | $1,006.0 million | +11.1% | 2 | |
| Department of Commerce | $644.6 million | +9.0% | 3 | |
| Department of the Interior | $1,889.9 million | +1.4% | 4 | |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $1,240.6 million | +0.7% | 5 | |
| National Science Foundation | $1,857.6 million | +0.4% | 6 | |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $1,953.0 million | −31.7% | 7 | |
| Federal Communications Commission | $981.0 million | −41.1% | 8 |
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What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite
What this number cannot tell you
- An obligation is a promise to pay, not a payment. An agency obligates money when it signs a contract, makes a grant or a loan, or sets up a direct payment; the money can be paid weeks, months or years later, or not in full. This page counts the promises made by the Department of Justice, by the month of the award action.
- The Department of Defense, whose awards include those of the Army Corps of Engineers, files its awards about 90 days after the action. So that every agency's month is whole, this page stops at the last month that ended at least 90 days before USAspending's latest data date. Agencies also correct their awards for weeks, so the newest months can change a little, and a month can be below zero when more money is cancelled than is awarded.
- The figures are the awards USAspending.gov holds: contracts, grants, loans, direct payments and other awards. Loans are counted as USAspending counts them, by their cost to the government. Spending that is not an award, such as the pay of the agency's own staff, is not in them.
- An award is filed under the agency that makes it, not under the agency that spends the money or the place it goes to. USAspending's fiscal years run from October to September; this page uses the calendar months.
- The values are in millions of dollars and are shown to one decimal; the change over a year compares a month with the same month a year earlier. The changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest values are ours, worked out from the stored values.
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How to cite this
USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Award obligations of Department of Justice, monthly, millions of dollars, through July 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "How much money did the Department of Justice commit to awards each month?", https://500metrics.com/federal-awards-by-agency/department-of-justice.
Can the data be downloaded?federal-awards-by-agency-department-of-justice.csv
Download the full history as CSV: 226 rows, to , 5,530 bytes.
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Recession dates from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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