CONSTRUCTION

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.

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.