What laborer-occupation donors give in federal races

Hundreds of thousands of lines, a $42 mean

$11,579,166, 276,402 itemizations, and 5,912 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $42. Mean dollars per donor record are about $1,958. Repeat giving is about 47 itemizations per donor record.

276,402 lines from 5,912 records is a high-volume, high-repeat stack: many schedules, a low per-line mean. Headline dollars near $11.6 million arrive through volume rather than large average gifts.

The packet has no union-local field, no trade specialty, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average while most lines remain small.

LABORER is not a union-membership census

The FEC record does not verify that the donor holds a union card or works construction. The word can appear on PAC itemizations, campaign staff lists, and self-typed individual schedules. Best-efforts rules do not force a trade taxonomy.

This page cites only $11,579,166, 276,402 contributions, and 5,912 donors. BUILDER, CONTRACTOR, and GENERAL CONTRACTOR remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and address splits

5,912 donor records used LABORER on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed LABORER on some gifts and CONSTRUCTION on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the one-word title.

Industry pages group employers, not this volume

Industry pages group employers. LABORER as occupation is the donor’s job text, not the employer-industry code. Adding $11,579,166 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the LABORER occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the string next to other construction and trade titles.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals LABORER, dollars equal $11,579,166, contributions equal 276,402, donors equal 5,912, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the contribution count with the dollars so the $42 mean is visible next to the headline total.

Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact beyond $11,579,166, 276,402 contributions, and 5,912 donors. Neighboring trade titles stay on their own pages unless the extract merged them into LABORER.

Reading LABORER as a high-volume trade key

LABORER in this extract is $11,579,166 on 276,402 itemizations from 5,912 donor records, or $11.6 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules. People who type builder, contractor, or construction may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact LABORER key is in $11,579,166.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $42 per contribution and about $1,958 per donor record, with roughly 47 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining LABORER with neighboring trade strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 5,912 donor records on 276,402 lines is a high-volume stack, not a union-membership census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $11,579,166. A person who listed LABORER on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals LABORER, dollars equal $11,579,166, contributions equal 276,402, donors equal 5,912. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live LABORER occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($11.6 million) are the same headline amount as $11,579,166, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 276,402 contributions and 5,912 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see that headline dollars arrive through volume, not a large per-gift mean. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a union card. A citation that stays inside the packet names LABORER, $11,579,166, 276,402, and 5,912 together.

Questions

How much have laborer-occupation donors given in FEC data?

The LABORER occupation string is attached to $11,579,166 across 276,402 contributions and 5,912 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of union laborers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Why is the laborer contribution count so large?

276,402 itemizations from 5,912 donor records produce a mean of about $42 per line. The packet does not name PAC versus individual mix. This page covers LABORER: $11,579,166, 276,402 contributions, and 5,912 donors. 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 laborer contribution?

Dividing $11,579,166 by 276,402 itemizations yields about $42 per contribution. Dividing by 5,912 donors yields about $1,958 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 47 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing laborer prove union membership?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify local, trade, or employer. Quote 276,402 contributions and 5,912 donor records with the $11,579,166 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.