ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 as FEC employer text: $19.6 million

A local’s name, not every electrician

The industry ranking stores whatever employer text committees grouped. ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 is that local’s name on individual receipts. The $19,562,659 figure is the sum of those itemized gifts. It is not a census of every licensed electrician in the United States, and it is not every IBEW local’s combined giving.

People who typed IBEW, a different local number, ELECTRICIAN as a job title, or a contractor company name sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into Local 98.

1,837 donors and 111,945 lines

1,837 unique donors produced 111,945 ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 contribution lines totaling $19,562,659. That is on the order of 61 itemized receipts per donor — high paperwork volume relative to the unique-person count. Recurring itemized gifts and payroll-style itemization can both produce that shape. The packet does not split those mechanisms.

Party share is not on the industry headline. A union PAC’s own committee filings are a different FEC category unless the individual receipt itself carries this employer string. This $19,562,659 is the individual-employer cluster only.

Other labor names are other keys

INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS and other union-name rows are separate keys with their own dollar totals. Combining them with ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 would be a researcher-built labor recode, not the stored FEC text. This page stays at $19,562,659 for this local string.

Occupation pages show job titles stored beside the local name. ENGINEER, CONTRACTOR, and ELECTRICIAN as occupation or employer words remain other rows when the local’s name was not typed.

Donor table

The ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer a project labor agreement, a municipal contract, or a vote from that line. Former members who still type the local share the string with current members. The FEC field is not a membership roster.

Repeat names are expected given 111,945 lines from 1,837 people. Unitemized gifts never appear. State-level filings never appear in this federal total.

The ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 table will show the same 1,837 people across many of the 111,945 lines that sum to $19,562,659. That is expected at roughly 61 receipts per unique donor. Other locals, IBEW, ELECTRICIAN as a title, CONTRACTOR, and INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS stay on other pages. Unitemized gifts and union PAC committee reports that lack this employer string stay out. Occupation pages show titles beside the local name. LobbyVault does not treat the string as a membership roster. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS 2382.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $19,562,659, 111,945 contributions, 1,837 donors, top employer ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS 2382 electrical contractors.

Open the industry index for other union and contractor strings. Open occupation pages for titles next to this local. Follow committees on the donor table for party and office.

Local-name coverage versus a national electrician total

ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98’s $19,562,659 from 1,837 donors and 111,945 lines is one local’s name as typed, not every IBEW local and not NAICS electrical contractors. Other local numbers, the letters IBEW, ELECTRICIAN as a job title, and contractor company names are other keys. INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS is a different union-name row. Combining those strings would be a researcher-built labor recode, not the FEC’s stored text.

The 111,945 lines from 1,837 people imply on the order of 61 itemized receipts per unique donor. Recurring itemized programs and payroll-style itemization can both produce that volume. Unitemized gifts never appear. A union PAC’s committee filings are a different FEC category unless the individual receipt itself carries this employer string. The $19,562,659 is the individual-employer cluster only.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. LobbyVault does not infer a project labor agreement or a membership card from the local name. Former members who still type ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 share the 1,837 with current members. Occupation pages show titles beside the local. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, $19,562,659, 111,945 contributions, 1,837 donors. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Questions

How much have ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $19,562,659 to the ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 employer string, from 111,945 contributions and 1,837 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a nationwide electrician total and not a NAICS contractor sector. Unitemized gifts are omitted. 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 union’s PAC spending?

Not as a PAC document. The $19,562,659 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98. Committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those committee reports into this industry row. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this include every IBEW local?

No. Other local numbers and the letters IBEW, if stored as different strings, are other keys. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98. The 1,837 donors are that string’s unique contributors, not a national membership count.

Why so many contributions per donor?

The 111,945 lines include repeat gifts from the same 1,837 people — on the order of 61 itemized receipts per donor. Recurring itemized programs raise the line count. The FEC field is transactional, not a once-per-member census. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.