What plumber donors give in federal races

High-frequency trades receipts

$5,890,623 is the occupation-level dollar total. 49,226 is the itemization count. 1,269 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $120 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,642 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 39 itemizations per donor record. Forty-nine thousand-plus lines from 1,269 donor records is a high-frequency pattern: many receipts per person and a modest mean dollars per line.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $120 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per contribution sit toward the low side among occupation strings near this dollar band. Frequency and dollar size are different dimensions; this bucket is heavier on line count than on dollars per line.

Self-reported trade text, not a license list

PLUMBER, PLUMBING CONTRACTOR, and PIPEFITTER are different occupation keys if committees typed them that way. A donor who files PLUMBING CONTRACTOR in one cycle and PLUMBER in another is split.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals PLUMBER after indexing. PLUMBING CONTRACTOR, PIPEFITTER, and CONTRACTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to PLUMBER.

What 1,269 donor records can and cannot show

1,269 donor records used PLUMBER on at least one matching itemization. 1,269 donor records used PLUMBER on at least one matching itemization. That is not a headcount of licensed plumbers. Apprentices, retirees, and owners who typed the trade noun can all appear.

A person who listed PLUMBER on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

Occupation versus construction industry pages

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. Industry pages may group construction employers. This occupation page groups only the job-title string PLUMBER. Adding $5,890,623 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the PLUMBER occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $5,890,623.

How to cite the plumber key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: PLUMBER itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,890,623 on 49,226 contributions from 1,269 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Occupation is not a licensing roster and not a construction-industry total.

Treating PLUMBER as a high-line occupation string

PLUMBER in this extract is $5,890,623 on 49,226 itemizations from 1,269 donor records, or $5.9 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; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. A state plumbing board can list who may pull permits. FEC itemizations list whoever typed PLUMBER. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $120 per contribution and about $4,642 per donor record, with roughly 39 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. PLUMBING CONTRACTOR, PIPEFITTER, and CONTRACTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to PLUMBER. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $5,890,623. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals PLUMBER, dollars equal $5,890,623, contributions equal 49,226, donors equal 1,269. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($5.9 million) are the same headline amount as $5,890,623, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of PLUMBER in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have plumber donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list PLUMBER sum to $5,890,623 across 49,226 contributions and 1,269 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does the FEC verify plumber licenses?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. PLUMBER itemizations still sum to $5,890,623 from 49,226 contributions and 1,269 donor records. Quote those three facts; do not treat them as a license census. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Why are there 49,226 contributions?

That is the itemized line count for this exact string. Repeat gifts from the same 1,269 donor records add rows. About 39 lines per record and about $120 per contribution are means on $5,890,623, not a payroll-deduction proof. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Are plumbing contractors included?

Only if the occupation field equals PLUMBER. PLUMBING CONTRACTOR is a different key. This page is $5,890,623, 49,226 lines, and 1,269 donors. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.