USAspending.gov · federal contract spending · CY2024 · WA
Washington federal contract spending
Top-third USAspending place-of-performance jurisdiction by calendar-2024 contract dollars — WA extract with listed primes below.
- Corpus rank
- #14 of 56
- Contract awards (CY2024)
- $15.6B
- State code
- WA
- Top primes
- 17
Washington vs all states by place-of-performance award dollars
Where this state's calendar-2024 USAspending place-of-performance total sits among every jurisdiction with awards (coverage density, not contractor quality)
$15,588,775,120 Top 25% more award dollars than 75% of 56 states
States, banded by CY place-of-performance award dollars
Each bar is a $1-wide band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source USAspending.gov · 2026-08-14
Washington place-of-performance awards
According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, Washington ranks #14 of 54 by calendar-2024 dollars ($15.6B) and #33 by 2023-to-2024 change (-2.7%). Virginia is #1 of 54 by calendar-2024 place-of-performance dollars ($111.4B) at 2023-to-2024 #27 (+1.6%) ≠ Wisconsin #1 2023-to-2024 change (+60.8%) at dollars #24 ($8.7B).
PlainFedContract attributes awards to Washington by USAspending.gov primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Calendar-2024 dollars stay separate from lifetime recipient totals and complete-FY national pools; see /methodology/#populations/. Not a forecast of future awards.
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Washington’s annual contract dollars by place of performance fell from $16.0B in 2023 to $15.6B in 2024. 2.7% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2023 at $16.0B.
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same place-of-performance basis as the CY2024 headline above.
How Washington leads the CY2024 place-of-performance board
$15.6B · #14 of 56 by CY2024 place-of-performance awards (top quartile nationally) — a top-third jurisdiction by calendar-2024 place-of-performance contract dollars (same board as the states listing). See methodology.
The Boeing Company is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $5.4B, or 35.0% of this state’s calendar-2024 total. Top recipients in this extract tie to 6 awarding agencies — a moderate awarding-agency span for the listed primes. Totals use primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Methodology.
Top Contractors in Washington
Listed-prime dollar bands
Exclusive cut of the 17 named primes listed below ($10.5B combined). This is a share of the listed table only, not of Washington’s full place-of-performance total, and not a forecast.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Mega-scale state peers nationwide
Cross-state peers on the USAspending place-of-performance extract: nearest mega-scale obligation totals and broadest awarding-agency span among listed primes. Not regional neighbors.
Closest place-of-performance obligations
Similar awarding-agency span
Washington lists top recipients tied to 6 awarding agencies in the available linked extract.
- Arkansas 6 agencies
- South Dakota 6 agencies
- Arizona 5 agencies
- Kentucky 5 agencies
- Nevada 5 agencies
- Pennsylvania 5 agencies
Disclaimer: USAspending.gov public records for a top-tier place-of-performance jurisdiction. Dollar totals aggregate CY2024 awards where work ran in Washington; verify modifications with Treasury before relying on a single figure.
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