Federal Awards per Resident · South Carolina

## What this measures

Federal contract, grant, loan and other award obligations to recipients located in South Carolina in a federal fiscal year, divided by the state's population, in dollars per resident. Fiscal year N runs October to September and is dated on October 1 of the year before. From FY2017.

## Why it matters

Per resident, federal award flows can be compared across states of any size: it shows which state economies lean most on federal contracts and grants, and so which are most exposed to changes in federal spending, procurement or grant formulas.

## How to read it

Dollars per resident per fiscal year, current dollars. The District of Columbia, Virginia, Alaska and Connecticut run far above the rest; most states sit between about $4,000 and $9,000 in recent years. FY2020 and FY2021 are inflated by pandemic programs.

## What it does not say

It counts where the recipient is, not where the money is spent: headquarters of large contractors inflate Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Direct payments (Social Security, Medicare, veterans' benefits, farm payments) are left out because USAspending places most of them where they are reported, not where beneficiaries live. Obligations are commitments, not cash paid. It does not count federal salaries or taxes paid, so it is not a "balance of payments" with Washington.

## Source

USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service: spending by geography (API v2), recipient location, state, transaction obligations for all award types except direct payments. "The data on this site is available to copy, adapt, redistribute, or otherwise use for non-commercial or for commercial purposes." The per-resident figure is a Palanor calculation: obligations ÷ the July 1 population of the calendar year the fiscal year ends, with both inputs kept on each point. Residents are the Census Bureau's July 1 resident population estimates for the year (Population Estimates Program: 2000–2009 intercensal, 2010–2019 Vintage 2020, 2020 on the newest vintage; a year the newest vintage does not reach yet uses its last year). A work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. §105), public domain.