What CONSTRUCTION donors give in federal races

Sector noun as occupation text

$17,948,059 is the occupation-level dollar total. 56,051 is the itemization count. 3,900 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $320. Mean dollars per donor record are about $4,602. Repeat giving is about 14 itemizations per donor record.

3,900 donor records is a mid-width pool. The per-line mean of about $320 sits with other trade-adjacent strings that mix owners, tradespeople, and office staff who all typed the same sector word.

The packet does not say whether the donor poured concrete, ran a GC shop, or worked in a construction office. It only supplies the three CONSTRUCTION facts.

CONSTRUCTION is not CONTRACTOR

CONTRACTOR, CONSTRUCTION OWNER, and BUILDER — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to CONSTRUCTION. This page cites only $17,948,059, 56,051 contributions, and 3,900 donors.

Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word. Someone who listed construction worker, construction, or construction company as a shorthand may all land here if the extract normalized to CONSTRUCTION. The FEC does not recode that noun into a standard occupational classification.

What the dollars do not measure

$17,948,059 is not a construction-industry PAC total and not a public-works contract sum. Industry pages group employers. Occupation CONSTRUCTION will not equal a construction industry page dollar for dollar.

Party is not in the occupation column. Open the CONSTRUCTION occupation page for recipient rows rather than reading bloc preference from a sector word. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $17.9 million.

Occupation versus industry for building work

A donor who listed CONSTRUCTION on some gifts and CONTRACTOR on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction. Adding those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Use the occupations index to see neighboring trade titles as separate keys. Use industry pages for employer-side cuts.

Limits and source

Occupation is free text. Extra words (construction manager, retired construction) create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to CONSTRUCTION. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $17,948,059.

3,900 is a contributor-record count, not a census of firms. Source: FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.

Sector-word occupation in the bulk extract

CONSTRUCTION in this extract is $17,948,059 on 56,051 itemizations from 3,900 donor records. About 14 itemizations per donor record is a moderate repeat rate. Mean line size is about $320; mean dollars per donor record are about $4,602. CONTRACTOR remains another hub if present as a separate key.

Industry pages should not be added to $17,948,059. The sector noun is not a NAICS code and not a contractor-license roster. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals CONSTRUCTION, dollars equal $17,948,059, contributions equal 56,051, donors equal 3,900. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column. Live hub filters may change displayed sums; this file restates harvested packet facts only.

3,900 donor records is a mid-width pool that can mix owners, tradespeople, and office staff who all typed the same sector word. Construction manager and retired construction create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to CONSTRUCTION. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $17,948,059.

Keep CONSTRUCTION on its own line. Compact millions ($17.9 million) are the same headline amount as $17,948,059, rounded to one decimal place. 3,900 is a contributor-record count, not a census of firms. Quote occupation equals CONSTRUCTION, then $17,948,059, 56,051 contributions, and 3,900 donors. The occupations index is the inventory of neighboring trade titles. Industry pages remain an employer-side cut.

A sector word used as occupation text will mix trades, owners, and office staff. That mix is inside $17,948,059, 56,051 contributions, and 3,900 donors. It is not a NAICS industry total and not a contractor-license extract. Mean line size of about $320 is an arithmetic mean, not a typical check. Cite the exact string.

Contractor licenses are not in the packet. 3,900 donor records is not a census of firms. Restate the citation as occupation equals CONSTRUCTION, dollars equal $17,948,059, contributions equal 56,051, donors equal 3,900.

Questions

How much have CONSTRUCTION donors given in FEC records?

Occupation CONSTRUCTION is attached to $17,948,059 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 56,051 contributions and 3,900 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a contractor census. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is CONSTRUCTION the same as a construction industry total?

No. Industry pages group employers. This page is the occupation string CONSTRUCTION: $17,948,059, 56,051 contributions, and 3,900 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters.

Does CONSTRUCTION include contractors?

Only if they typed CONSTRUCTION. CONTRACTOR is a separate occupation string unless the bulk extract normalized it here. Quote 56,051 contributions and 3,900 donor records with the $17,948,059 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

What is the average CONSTRUCTION contribution?

Dividing $17,948,059 by 56,051 itemizations yields about $320 per contribution. Dividing by 3,900 donors yields about $4,602 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.