Historical Expenditures


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This bar graph represents total expenditures from 2000-2021. By clicking on any year, you can drill down and review more detailed spending information. To view this spending information by fund type, follow this link. To view expenditures by each agency for each major account category, please go to the data table below the bar graph. For historical sources of funding, go to the Source of State Funding tab and click on year of historical dollars received. For a definition of terms, please visit the glossary.

The historical expenditures include both funds appropriated by the Legislature and trust fund expenditures that do not require Legislative appropriations.

Spending by major account category, 2000-2021

Fiscal Year End Totals:

2021$14,904,721,032
2020$12,854,230,038
2019$12,048,375,458
2018$11,947,227,303
2017$11,865,926,935
2016$11,609,717,699
2015$10,980,573,897
2014$10,449,446,342
2013$10,162,630,170
2012$9,877,169,064
2011$9,802,019,177
2010$9,590,307,673
2009$9,136,917,676
2008$8,711,994,668
2007$8,164,016,229
2006$7,975,526,250
2005$7,495,714,112
2004$7,104,161,484
2003$6,807,374,471
2002$6,582,831,022
2001$6,058,040,449
2000$5,800,835,535
Fiscal years ended June 30, 20xx
Source - Annual Budgetary Report; For the year ended 6-30-04 page 54, for the year ended 6-30-09 page 52, for the year ended 6-30-10 page 52, for the year ended 6-30-11 page 52, for the year ended 6-30-12 page 52, for the year ended 6-30-13 page 52, for the year ended 6-30-14 page 39, for the year ended 6-30-15 page 39, for the year ended 6-30-16 page 39, for the year ended 6-30-17 page 40, for the year ended 6-30-18 page 39, for the year ended 6-30-19 page 39 and for the year ended 6-30-20 page 39.


Expenditures by agency, by major account category for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021

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AgencyPersonal ServicesOperating ExpensesTravelCapital OutlayGovernment AidTotal
Abstracters, Board of Examiners$18,704$5,824$641$0$0$25,169
Accountability and Disclosure Commission$609,359$109,396$873$0$0$719,628
Administrative Services, Department of$61,558,990$399,941,088$159,561$36,896,814$0$498,556,453
Agriculture, Department of$10,796,224$4,914,332$405,952$323,635$1,626,201$18,066,344
Agriculture, State Board of$0$0$0$0$4,822,695$4,822,695
Arts Council$712,327$169,993$1,397$0$2,703,420$3,587,137
Attorney General$9,955,593$1,791,651$122,299$41,592$0$11,911,135
Auditor of Public Accounts$3,990,497$198,897$11,096$54,112$0$4,254,602
Banking and Finance, Department of$5,881,146$1,032,362$5,935$103,960$0$7,023,403
Barber Examiners, Board of$118,957$13,522$4,267$0$0$136,746
Blind and Visually Impaired, Commission for$2,657,784$1,419,926$72,898$586,831$843,300$5,580,739
Board of Engineers and Architects$443,488$151,355$2,491$0$0$597,334
Brand Committee$4,236,830$673,290$606,024$11,091$0$5,527,235
Corn Development, Utilization and Marketing Board$540,916$8,014,629$36,980$0$0$8,592,525
Correctional Services, Department of$128,622,457$117,562,291$802,792$44,399,425$3,680,557$295,067,522
Criminal Justice, Commission on Law Enforcement and$3,763,977$4,151,190$33,468$1,368$21,078,682$29,028,685
Dairy Industry Development Board$0$1,463,669$0$0$0$1,463,669
Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Commission of the$847,874$202,182$9,224$0$0$1,059,280
Dry Bean Commission$63,250$105,387$4,521$0$0$173,158
Economic Development, Department of$5,339,448$1,795,687$45,657$0$42,874,068$50,054,860
Education, State Department of$40,963,261$36,419,231$268,040$36,439$1,778,360,226$1,856,047,197
Educational Lands and Funds, Board of$2,297,116$15,072,928$11,095$140,729$0$17,521,868
Educational Telecommunications Commission$4,221,566$5,563,021$129,936$2,604,293$210,672$12,729,488
Electrical Board$1,431,889$239,762$186,266$105,351$0$1,963,268
Environmental Quality, Department of$16,292,829$20,088,306$161,193$236,948$51,780,698$88,559,974
Equal Opportunity Commission$1,739,576$230,023$2,818$0$0$1,972,417
Ethanol Board$299,978$141,782$10,635$0$0$452,395
Fire Marshal, State$5,535,113$1,001,227$492,879$42,979$149,312$7,221,510
Foster Care Review Board, State$2,130,866$244,298$1,870$0$0$2,377,034
Game and Parks Commission$43,850,978$32,758,462$290,669$11,296,193$25,362,029$113,558,331
Geologists, Board of$0$27,166$2,422$0$0$29,588
Governor$1,731,729$255,754$24,271$1,479$0$2,013,233
Grain Sorghum Development, Utilization and Marketing Board$60,621$30,666$3,325$0$0$94,612
Health and Human Services System$296,193,365$356,911,226$1,937,923$11,458,571$3,626,129,141$4,292,630,226
Historical Society, Nebraska State$4,597,579$2,192,662$59,038$437,812$137,223$7,424,314
Indian Affiars, Commission on$216,888$39,032$628$0$20,000$276,548
Industrial Relations, Commission of$182,089$22,334$0$0$0$204,423
Insurance, Department of$8,259,219$7,699,560$14,222$139,269$346,620$16,458,890
Investment Council, Nebraska$1,552,636$1,162,212$3,800$0$0$2,718,648
Labor, Department of$22,945,598$33,640,157$62,810$5,307,177$5,672,624$67,628,366
Land Surveyors, State Board of Examiners for$0$15,912$2,039$0$0$17,951
Landscape Architects, State Board of$0$19,192$462$0$0$19,654
Legislative Council$18,524,632$1,913,684$816,217$505,363$0$21,759,896
Library Commission$2,772,147$813,363$7,384$11,330$2,066,145$5,670,369
Lieutenant Governor$122,714$6,566$10,116$0$0$139,396
Liquor Control Commission$1,080,289$392,540$5,165$0$0$1,477,994
Mexican-Americans, Commission on$207,778$41,459$3,958$0$0$253,195
Military, Department of$74,130,634$82,228,841$5,387,590$389,214$1,072,655,058$1,234,791,337
Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Board$606,105$183,568$35,128$0$0$824,801
Motor Vehicles, Department of$12,522,786$13,362,700$322,257$19,093$29,487$26,256,323
Natural Resources, Department of$8,522,944$3,442,742$175,937$33,888$17,668,703$29,844,214
Oil and Gas Conservation Commission$667,951$492,588$4,505$7,488$0$1,172,532
Pardons, Board of$5,155,204$2,887,749$122,466$2,389$0$8,167,808
Postsecondary Education, Coordinating Commission for$1,002,672$272,720$5,629$0$22,880,056$24,161,077
Power Review Board$326,070$228,130$4,125$258$0$558,583
Public Accountancy, Nebraska State Board of$258,288$76,664$2,010$0$0$336,962
Public Advocacy, Commission on$1,001,324$163,161$34,099$0$2,049,356$3,247,940
Public Service Commission$4,502,196$2,632,407$66,596$0$46,450,379$53,651,578
Racing Commission, State$302,263$148,029$39,215$0$80,678$570,185
Real Estate Appraiser Board$230,550$73,681$1,859$0$0$306,090
Real Estate Commission, State$790,413$833,709$15,387$386$0$1,639,895
Retirement Systems, Public Employees'$3,171,033$1,020,750,466$5,118$0$54,379,581$1,078,306,198
Revenue, Department of$27,687,530$63,697,387$106,469$53,365$407,822,037$499,366,788
Secretary of State$2,824,308$6,227,404$7,687$14,621$642,991$9,717,011
State Colleges$75,323,226$33,874,454$1,299,941$5,385,260$54,033,024$169,915,905
State Patrol$54,826,756$21,917,840$222,676$5,357,156$709,588$83,034,016
State Treasurer$3,208,581$12,393,899$2,905$47,926$27,000,269$42,653,580
Supreme Court$123,851,899$68,113,272$1,140,792$1,140,081$1,270,000$195,516,044
Tax Equalization and Review Commission$735,269$99,979$29,943$161$0$865,352
Technical Community Colleges$0$0$0$0$103,558,339$103,558,339
Tourism Commission$848,637$2,771,313$33,268$0$518,130$4,171,348
Transportation, Department of$153,370,263$181,546,841$437,602$497,546,578$177,789,540$1,010,690,824
University of Nebraska$1,406,057,809$700,800,074$9,074,218$209,699,648$463,697,121$2,789,328,870
Veterans' Affairs, Department of$35,581,311$19,210,707$547,558$1,583,559$959,607$57,882,742
Wheat Development, Utilization and Marketing Board$228,454$522,241$20,812$0$0$771,507
Workers' Compensation Court$4,174,390$1,284,519$15,238$25,210$444,722$5,944,079
Total$2,719,277,143$3,300,896,281$25,996,287$836,049,042$8,022,502,279$14,904,721,032

Sources: Nebraska Annual Budgetary Report for the year ended
June 30, 2021 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 28-39
June 30, 2020 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 28-39
June 30, 2019 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 28-39
June 30, 2018 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 28-39
June 30, 2017 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 28-40
June 30, 2016 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 27-39
June 30, 2015 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 27-39
June 30, 2014 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 27-39
June 30, 2013 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 42-52
June 30, 2012 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 42-52
June 30, 2011 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 42-52
June 30, 2010 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 42-52
June 30, 2005 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 42-53
June 30, 2000 - Schedule of Expenditures by major account category, pages 44-57