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Education, jobs & social services
Schools, college aid, job training, and social services. Student-loan accounting (the estimated cost of loans, revised each year) makes this category swing sharply from one year to the next. In FY2025 it came to $72.0B , 1.0% of all federal spending (#12 of 18 categories). Adjusted for inflation, that is down 24% since FY2000.
1.0%
of all federal spending
−76%
change from FY2024 ($306B)
-42%
mandatory (the rest is discretionary)
Where it goes
Education, jobs & social services by subcategory, FY2025. Click one for every program inside it.
Negative subcategories collected more in fees, premiums, or loan repayments than they spent.
The biggest programs
The largest individual accounts in education, jobs & social services, FY2025, across all its subcategories.
Education, jobs & social services since 1993
Outlays in 2025 dollars (adjusted for inflation), fiscal years 1993–2025. Share of all federal spending: 3.4% in FY1993, 1.0% in FY2025.
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Method. Outlays are cash actually spent in the fiscal year (FY2025 ran October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025), as recorded in the Office of Management and Budget's Public Budget Database, released with the President's FY2027 Budget (April 2026), summed by budget function (category), subfunction (subcategory), and account (program). Every subcategory on this site reconciles to the dollar with OMB Historical Table 3.2, and the 2025 total matches Table 1.1 and Treasury's final Monthly Treasury Statement. Payments between government accounts (such as general-fund transfers into trust funds, and the matching receipts) are netted inside each subcategory so no program is counted twice. Premiums, fees, and other collections that agencies subtract from their spending are shown as offsets. Inflation-adjusted figures use OMB's GDP (chained) price index (Table 10.1). Mandatory and discretionary labels are OMB's budget-enforcement (BEA) categories.
Sources: Office of Management and Budget: Public Budget Database, outlays by account (FY2027 Budget); Historical Tables 1.1, 3.2, and 10.1 (April 2026); U.S. Treasury, Final Monthly Treasury Statement for FY2025. Full links on the Sources page.