The FY2027 President's Budget requests $235.0M for Salaries and Expenses, within Labor's Salaries and Expenses account. That is down 9.6% on the FY2026 figure of $260.0M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $260.0M |
| FY2026 | enacted | $260.0M |
| FY2027 | request | $235.0M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Labor discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Labor's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
For necessary expenses for the Wage and Hour Division, including reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agencies and their employees for inspection services rendered, $235,000,000. FY 2026 Enacted Explanation of Change Federal Funds FY 2027 Total Other goods and svcs. from Fed. sources
Extracted from Wage and Hour Division, p. 9. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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