CONSTRUCTION as FEC employer text: $10.5 million

A trade word where a company name usually goes

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. Many self-employed tradespeople type CONSTRUCTION instead of a legal company name. The $10,512,594 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not Census construction payroll, not a NAICS 236 or 237 rollup of building and heavy-civil work, and not a union or trade-association PAC.

People who typed a specific GC name, CONTRACTOR, BUILDER, ELECTRICIAN, or SELF-EMPLOYED without this word sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into CONSTRUCTION. The FEC field records what the donor (or treasurer) typed, not a standardized industry code.

777 donors and 24,863 lines

777 unique donors produced 24,863 CONSTRUCTION contribution lines totaling $10,512,594. That is on the order of 32 itemized receipts per donor. Line volume is lower than USPS-style payroll clusters in this dollar band and higher than some partnership rows with a few hundred people. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and committee PAC filings are outside the $10,512,594 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 24,863 lines are expected.

CONTRACTOR, BUILDER, and OWNER stay separate

CONTRACTOR, BUILDER, OWNER, and BUSINESS OWNER are separate keys. Combining them with CONSTRUCTION would mix stored strings into a homemade building-trades recode. This page stays at $10,512,594 for CONSTRUCTION only. Occupation pages show titles stored beside the word — owner, president, self-employed — as typed.

A donor who listed a named general contractor is not in these 777 people unless the receipt also grouped to CONSTRUCTION. REAL ESTATE and REAL ESTATE BROKER are property-side strings, not this trade word.

Donor table without project inference

The CONSTRUCTION donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a highway bid, a housing start, or a motive to that line. Former tradespeople who still type CONSTRUCTION share the string with current owners.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This guide does not assign a partisan percentage to the trade word. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $10,512,594, 24,863 contributions, 777 donors, top employer CONSTRUCTION. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Unitemized gifts, state races, and trade-association PACs are omitted.

Compare CONTRACTOR, BUILDER, and OWNER on the industry index. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside CONSTRUCTION. Cite $10,512,594 from FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a Census construction-sector table.

Named GCs and CONTRACTOR are not this trade word

CONSTRUCTION as a trade word is not a named general contractor, not CONTRACTOR, and not BUILDER. Those strings, when typed, sit on other keys. The $10,512,594 total, 24,863 contribution lines, and 777 donors describe this one word only. REAL ESTATE and REAL ESTATE BROKER remain property-side rows. OWNER is a generic title that may include builders who never typed CONSTRUCTION.

Unitemized gifts, state races, union PACs, and Census construction payroll stay outside the $10,512,594. Occupation pages show titles beside CONSTRUCTION. Former tradespeople who still type the word remain in the 777. The FEC field is not a license roster and not NAICS 23. Repeat names among 24,863 lines are expected.

Open the CONSTRUCTION donor table for disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a highway bid or housing-start inference. Cite $10,512,594, 24,863 contributions, and 777 donors from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Do not add CONTRACTOR and BUILDER to this word and call the sum a building-trades industry.

Researchers who want a building-trades recode must list CONTRACTOR, BUILDER, OWNER, and named GCs as separate additions. The $10,512,594 figure does not absorb those rows. It stays on CONSTRUCTION as 777 donors and 24,863 lines. REAL ESTATE BROKER is a property title, not this trade word. Union PAC filings remain other FEC categories. Follow recipient committees on the CONSTRUCTION donor table. Party share is not computed on the industry headline. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported employer text, not Census construction payroll and not NAICS 23.

Questions

How much have CONSTRUCTION-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $10,512,594 to the CONSTRUCTION employer string, from 24,863 contributions and 777 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a builders’ PAC and not a NAICS construction-sector total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from that figure. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is this the U.S. construction industry’s political spending?

No. The $10,512,594 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to the word CONSTRUCTION. NAICS 23 payroll and association PACs are other datasets. Named general contractors sit in other employer keys. Figures here are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include contractors and builders?

Only if the receipt grouped to CONSTRUCTION. CONTRACTOR and BUILDER are separate employer strings with their own pages. OWNER is another title-style key. Staff who typed a company legal name are in that firm row instead. Unitemized gifts are omitted.

How many unique donors listed CONSTRUCTION?

The rollup counts 777 donors and 24,863 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count — on the order of 32 itemized receipts per donor. This is not a Census headcount of construction workers. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only.