Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

Mediation caseloads versus an $18.2 million award ledger

FMCS mediators work private-sector and some public-sector labor disputes. None of those case counts are in this packet. $18,231,338.15 is what the Service obligated on federal awards through FY2026—training, IT, facilities, grants that appear as awards, and other instruments tagged to CGAC 093. A strike-heavy year does not automatically raise this total. A systems contract can raise it in a quiet bargaining year.

One hundred nineteen awards against $18.2 million implies about $153,205 per award. That modest mean on a modest count fits a small independent service buying support rather than running a high-volume endowment. The packet has no median.

NLRB and FLRA are different books

The National Labor Relations Board adjudicates unfair-labor-practice and representation cases. The Federal Labor Relations Authority handles the federal sector. FMCS mediates. Their USAspending totals are separate awarding-agency books. Adding them by hand invents a combined “labor” agency that USAspending does not publish.

Mediator salaries generally never appear as awards. The $18.2 million understates FMCS’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an award ledger.

Questions

How much has FMCS obligated on USAspending?

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service shows $18,231,338.15 in obligations through FY2026 across 119 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 093 is the filter. The total is not a count of mediation cases. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 093 is the source for the current 119-award book.

What is the average FMCS award?

Dividing $18,231,338.15 by 119 awards yields about $153,205. The packet has no median. Training, IT, and other administrative instruments share the same mean. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 093?

093 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for FMCS. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/093/. NLRB, FLRA, and the Labor Department use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Is $18.2 million the same as NLRB spending?

No. The National Labor Relations Board is a separate awarding agency with its own CGAC. FMCS is CGAC 093 with $18,231,338.15 on 119 awards. Outlays are unpublished in this packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.